The N-1 Moon Rocket

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Useful references

The whole basis for this project was information found on the web, here are some of the best web sites covering the N-1 program.

I have included Russian language sources, there are plenty of online translation services available that will help you navigate these pages.

Google online translation:
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=EN
Babelfish online translation:
http://babelfish.altavista.com/


Wikipedia.

The wikipedia pages are an excellent starting point for learning more about the N-1:

Main N-1 page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N1_rocket
Soviet Moonshot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_Moonshot
The LOK: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_7K-L3
Baikonur Cosmodrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baikonur_Cosmodrome

Wikipedia People:

Wikipedia, Sergei Korelov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev

Wikipedia, Valentin Glushko:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentin_Glushko

Wikipedia, Vasily Mishin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Mishin

Wikipedia, Alexei Leonov

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Leonov

Wikipedia, Yuri Gagarin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

Energia Corporation

The coporation that grew out of the N-1 and Buran programs when the Soviet Union broke up. You might consider this the 'official' N-1 site! Follow the links on the left:
http://www.energia.ru/english/energia/launchers/vehicle_n1-l3.html
Pages in Russian and English

Moon Race 2001

Not content with making a huge physical model of the N-1, these guys built a huge FLYING model of the N-1!
http://www.moonrace2001.org/n1_launch.shtml

Encyclopedia Astronautica:

A vast site with all sorts of information on every space program. Astonishing in it's detail, though graphics are often VERY small. Superlative information though.
http://www.astronautix.com/
N-1 pages: http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/n1.htm
Also worth visiting, the page detailing reasons for the failure of the N-1 program:
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/whynrace.htm

Russian Space Web

Another highly detailed space encyclopedia type site, this one concentrating on Russian / Soviet programs.
http://www.russianspaceweb.com/n1.html

Currell Graphics:

Rather ususual this - a free downloadable card model of the N-1! Even if you don;t plan on building it, it is very useful as a reference - they even got the colour right!
http://www.currell.net/models/n1.htm

N-1 Photo Clearinghouse

Somewhat spoiled by broken links, but still loads of useful photographs of the N-1 rocket, it's assembly, and facilities.
http://www.personal.psu.edu/faculty/g/h/ghb1/n1/n1synth.htm

My little space museum:

The page design is a bit of a pain on the eyes, but there are some good images, particularly of the Soviet LK Moon lander. Worth exploring.
http://www.myspacemuseum.com/sovspac1.htm
http://www.myspacemuseum.com/n1.htm

Space Models:

A good source pf plans, and diagrams. Aimed at those making physical models.
http://people.itu.int/~meens/model/model.htm

The Euro Disney LK exhibit:

http://www.myspacemuseum.com/eurolk.htm

Program History

Article on the history of the Russian lunar program:
(Century of flight)

Aerospace web’s nicely illustrated story of the N-1

http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0196.shtml

Marcus Lindroos has an excellent history of the program here:

http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/lindroos_moon1.htm

NASA N-1 High Res Plans

http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2002-000183.html

Charles Vick’s lunar mission profile for the N-1

http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/96vol38_vick.htm
also
http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/94vol47_vick.htm
and why the Soviets failed:
http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/cp_vick_interview.htm
The site has loads by Charles Vick, and it is worth examining the Google search of the whole site:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&pwst=1&q=+site:www.fas.org+charles+vick+n-1

Georgi Grechko Interview

Interview with cosmonaut Grechko, covering the period when Korolev was working on the N-1 program:
http://home.comcast.net/~rusaerog/grechko_interview.html
And another:
http://www.astrodigital.org/space/intgrechko1.html
Georgi Grechko on Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Grechko

Mishin Interview:

Interview with Mishin, who took over the N-1 program after Korolev.
http://www.pbs.org/redfiles/moon/deep/interv/m_int_vassily_mishin.htm

Mir Hardware Heritage:

An excellent NASA PDF document covering the history of the Russian manned space program, including the plans for the manned flight to the Moon.
http://spaceflight1.nasa.gov/history/shuttle-mir/references/documents/mirheritage.pdf

N1-L3 Overview, with stats and diagrams.

Nice concise overview of the N-1 facts and figures.http://www.boris-lux.de/04_types/61_sp/sp_ru/15_n1l/n1l3.php

BBC Article

Article from the BBC's news sit.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1883348.stm

Soviet Space Photos

Photos rom many missions, largely of museum exhibits.
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/sovietsp/sovietsp.html
For me the most useful photos were of the LK Lander
http://www.ninfinger.org/~sven/models/sovietsp/lk.html

The Soviet Manned Lunar Program

Excellent hstory of the N1-L3 program:
http://www.fas.org/spp/eprint/lindroos_moon1.htm

Charles Vick's article on the Lunar Mission

http://www.fas.org/irp/imint/96vol38_vick.htm

General on searching:

One of the tricks to finding good information and particularly pictures of Russian missions is to search in Russian. This is made a lot easier with online translation tools, (see above).

Cyrillic search "N1 L3"
(Google)
Cyrillic image search "N1 L3"
(Google)
Russian search "Moon Rocket"
(Google)
Russian image search "Moon Rocket"
(Google)

YouTube video clips:

There are a few short slips of the N-1 on the YouTube site. Here are some I found:

Space Video Archive

Avery good commercial Russian and Soviet space video library.
http://spacevideo.ru/index_en.html
and also see their links page for more stuff:
http://spacevideo.ru/links/links_en.html


Yahoo Space Modellers Group

A more general resource for anyone interested in modelling space vehicles, the Yahoo group. Although physical models dominate, the reference stuff is useful to digital modellers too.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/space-modelers/

Buran Site

Russian language site including some very good high resolution pictures of the LOK. Many sections are also in English.
http://www.buran.ru/htm/gud%2019.htm
Their photos page:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/foto.htm
And their video page:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/video.htm

German N-1 site:

German language site, with large versions of many of the best known N-1 photos. Unfortunately the page is spoilt by lots of annoying pop ups.
http://www.bernd-leitenberger.de/hercules.shtml

Russian language sources:


Kosmonautics News

This russian language site has huge image galleries and forums - primarily Russian language, bu DEFINITELY worth vidsiting the image galleries even if you speak no Russian at all. The forums are seething with experts on the soviet space programs.

Home page: http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/
Forums: http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/phpBB2/
Photo galleries: http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/info_nk.shtml

I particularly recommend these Baikonur galleries, covering the remains of the N-1 and Buran launch pads.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_077/index.shtml
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_076/index.shtml
These were the best resource I found for modelling the launch site.

Lots of LK Lander shots:
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_031/index.shtml

The Korolev Museum:
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_017/index.shtml


N-1, Top Secret.

Loads of detailed information, well worth the effort of translation.
http://www.astronaut.ru/bookcase/article/article04.htm

Russian Space History:

http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/tvorch-nasl-kor/01.html

The N1-L3 Complex:

VERY comprehensive and well illustrated Russian site, highly recommended for examining with a translation tool!
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/energia-50/05.html

Rockets & People - Moon Race

Huge site with loads of information. Strong on text, weak on pictures, but LOADS of information.
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/chertok/kniga-4/obl-4.html

Memories from Lunar Craft

You want definitive? Written by someone who worked on the lunar craft. With quite a lot of diagrams and sketches.
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/filin/obl-fil.html

Index of Soviet Space Books

This page links to many, many online books and articles about the Soviet space program
http://www.astronaut.ru/bookcase/article.htm

The history, development and outlook for space systems.

Part of the extensive 'Buran' site.
http://www.buran.ru/htm/gudilin2.htm

Cosmonautics News Article.

An engineers memories and impressions of the N-1 program.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/numbers/276/42.shtml

A fragment of inventory number No. 7537

Moon Landing Detailed Sequence. Has a nice animation too...
http://mo--on.narod.ru/LK_P.htm

Cosmonautics News Article.

Examining reasons for 2 of the failures of the N-1 rocket.
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/numbers/211/49.shtml

The Future of Cosmonautics

Interview with Mishin, ho suceeded Korolev.
http://www.vestnik.com/issues/1999/0427/koi/loktev.htm




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Thanks & Credits


These web pages would not have been possible without the help of many people who provided information, and pointed me the right way. Many run web sites which are listed in the LINKS section.

My particular thanks go to the people hanging out in the IAAA mailing list, the space modelers list, the forums at Novosti Kosmonavtiki, and specifically:

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