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The centerpiece of the Soviet lunar program, the unprecedented N1 giant rocket.

Even if you are tyrannical enough, you will be frightened by the super giant sky-scuring monkey in front of you, which is covered with scabies on the upper body, wearing a miniskirt on the lower body, is more than 100 meters tall, has a hip circumference of more than 20 meters, weighs nearly 3,000 tons, has a thrust of more than 4,000 tons, is pure metal, and has fully expanded.

The real name of this monkey is "N1 moon rocket", and it is the most powerful rocket ever built by mankind, although it has long been submerged in the old paper pile of history.

The N1 Overlord rocket is the only rocket that uses up to five stages in tandem, and the 30-stage parallel design of the first stage is unprecedented.

The design indicators of the N1 rocket are amazing even today, and it is the undisputed king of rockets.

According to the design requirements of the five-stage tandem, the N1 rocket uses a total of 43 liquid engines of five different models, plus several small attitude control engines - the fat pig has more than 60 piglets in its belly that can spit fire. Getting so many engines to work together reliably was a complex project – at the time, the problem of large thrust output from a single combustion chamber had not yet been solved, and this was the only way to do so.

The cancellation of the N-1 launch vehicle meant that the USSR could not achieve a manned landing on the moon until the birth of the Space Shuttle Energia launch vehicle in the mid-eighties of the XIX century: even so, it was hoped that Energiya would serve the program of building a large space station in 1992 or launch the Soviet equivalent of the Strategic Defense Program (SDI) payload into space. But what would have happened if the N-1 program had succeeded and continued until the end of the seventies?

It is worth mentioning that Russia, the successor of the Soviet Union, in recent years has created the most powerful rocket engine in the world, the RD-171MV.

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