The Soviet Union’s answer to NASA’s Saturn V was the N-1, a monstrous moon rocket that never made it off the ground. Rushed, flawed, and plagued with failures, the N-1’s catastrophic explosions became ...

Fifty years ago today, the massive Saturn V rocket for the Apollo 11 mission ... stated it was conceived of and built following the Soviet Union’s fatal in-flight accident on Soyuz 1, which ...