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N1 Rocket Failure - Second Launch Attempt (1969/07/03) - Soviet Moon Rocket

Second launch attempt of the soviet N1 rocket on 1969/07/30, reconstructed from several short film sequences. The rocket is also shown being taken to the pad. The original footage is spread over a few documentaries, mostly from Roscosmos, and usually mixed or mislabeled. The available segments cover almost all of the short flight 23 second flight. Some fragments of footage from a later flight are use to make up for a few missing seconds. On screen logos and dates were omitted for clarity. Sound was recreated from other rocket launches, and is an artistic interpretation. Research, editing and color correction by RetroSpace HD. ========================================= The N1/L3 was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit. The N1 was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V and was intended to enable crewed travel to Earth's Moon and beyond, with studies beginning as early as 1959. Its first stage remains the most powerful rocket stage ever built. All of the four flown N1 Block A first stages failed because of a lack of static test firings which did not reveal plumbing issues and other adverse characteristics with the large cluster of thirty engines and its complex fuel and oxidizer feeder system. The second N-1 vehicle was launched on 3 July 1969 and carried a modified L1 Zond spacecraft and live escape tower. Launch took place at 11:18 PM Moscow time. For a few moments, the rocket lifted into the night sky. As soon as it cleared the tower, there was a flash of light, and debris could be seen falling from the bottom of the first stage. All the engines instantly shut down except engine 18. This caused the N-1 to lean over at a 45-degree angle and drop back onto launch pad 110 East. The nearly 2300 tons of propellant on board triggered a massive blast and shock wave that shattered windows across the launch complex and sent debris flying as far as 6 miles (10 kilometers) from the center of the explosion. The launch escape system had activated at the moment of engine shutdown (T+15 seconds) and pulled the L1S-2 capsule to safety 1.2 miles (2 kilometers) away. Impact with the pad occurred at T+23 seconds. ========================================= A special thanks to the channel supporters (   / retrospacehd   ): Darcy Barrett Ellie Burack Gary Smith Gio Pagliari Jan Strzelecki Jeffrey A Pleimling Jules E Nathan Westwick Noah Soderquist Ryan Hardy Scott Manley ======================================== #n1rocket #n1 #sovietspace