Sergei Korolev, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the 1950s and 1960s, planned to adopt … See more

The LK spacecraft can be subdivided into the lunar landing aggregate ("Lunnyi Posadochnyi Agregat", "LPA") and the lunar ascent vehicle, ("Lunnyi Vzletnyi Apparat", "LVA'"). Propulsion, both for landing an… See more

The LK variant T2K was tested uncrewed in Earth orbit over three missions between 1970 and 1971. All three LKs were launched with the Soyuz-L rocket. The first flight imitated the planned working cycle of the … See more

The success of the Apollo program in putting American astronauts on the Moon in 1969 meant that the United States won the Moon race, although plans were being drawn right up until the early 1970s. Four N1 launches w… See more

Because the payload capacity of the N1 rocket was only 95 tons to LEO, versus the Saturn V's 140 tons to LEO, the LK was created to be less bulky than the Apollo Lunar Module (LM):
• It … See more

There are five remaining LK in various stages of completion. They are at:
• Moscow Aviation Institute (temporarily displayed at Disneyland Paris)
• Orevo Research and Educational Facility of Bauman U… See more