Here is a video of a flight of a Soviet N1 rocket hot staging. [likely animated] Flight History of N1 Rocket N1 1L – full scale dynamic test model, each stage was individually dynamically tested; the ...

On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal machine designed to send astronauts to the moon, exploded with ...

The Starship has often been compared to the Soviet N1 rocket owing to its large number of engines. Musk himself has admitted that the N1 is the closest comparable rocket to Starship.However, the ...

Russia's space program, under the direction of revered rocket scientist Sergei Korolev, tried to do this with the super-heavy N1 rocket in the 1960s. Its first stage was powered by 30 NK-15 engines.

No rocket has ever used so many engines before. The closest comparison is the Soviet Union's N1 rocket, which had a first stage powered by 30 NK-15 liquid-fueled engines.

Elon Musk reveals higher payload capacity for Starship, surpassing previous estimates. Starship's superiority sets it apart from the Soviet Union's failed N1 rocket, ultimately halting the former ...