The attention to detail is magnificent, especially the way you added an extra LK lander and the rovers that were part of the soviet lunar landing that a lot of people don’t know about
@@peterloohunt It would have been 3 launches One for an unmanned backup lander One for a modified Lunokhod rover that could carry the cosmonaut to the backup if the main lander failed and was more than walking distance away And the main lander itself
@@peterloohunt The rover was a lunokhod-like one, remote controlled from earth, and it was used as a radio beacon for precise landing. I think that the second LK lander was unmanned and "just in case there is a problem with the manned one".
That was some seriously great renditioning of space flight! The "V" engine is what gets me the most. The dual stage, down to the rim-shot," graphics is perfect in throttle! You should do a video on what would happen if you shot a weapon on the moon... Thanks again for all you do. It's nothing but perfect!
Finally!!! Our beloved Hercules, the Legendary N1-L3! 💪 My fav rocket virtually recreated by you by far! ❤ Even if every time a bittersweet feeling gets me for the Bureau system's concurrence and weaked soviet space politics of late 60s and early 70s which doomed Korolëv's Masterpiece even before it saw the light of day. ❤ In my mind, and I hope for the most of us, we want to think that you reached, as planned by Sergej, not only the Moon as showed here, but also Mars and Venus as the "Chief" invisioned for you! Wish you Godspeed in the Heaven of Rockets, Hercules! 🚀💪
Awesome, in the literal sense of the so-often over used word; but not here. The sense of history and drama, and cinematic style and detail are really terrific visually and genuinely add to our understanding of what the space race of the cold war was attempting to achieve.. Thanks for what you're doing and like so many who are also commenting i am eagerly anticipating your next. Cheers.
Americans just landed on moon first. Russians aldready won the space race. I recommend everybody to watch "BBC Cosmonauts:How Russia won the space race"
Ну а почему нет продолжения? Спускаемый аппарат был рассчитан но одного космонавта. Им должен был быть Алексей Леонов. Туда можно было добавить еще транспортное средство, луноход, на котором Леонов мог добраться до резервного корабля. А скафандр у него должен был быть оборудован обручем, который не даст космонавту в скафандре упасть. Потом старт с Луны, где посадочная ступень сыграет роль стартового стола. А на орбите стыковки с орбитальным кораблем не будет, его должны приблизить к лунному короблю и поймать специальным "богром", после чего лунный космонавт перелетает в орбитальный отсек, который выполнит роль шлюзовой камеры. И домой.
Powerful animation with blisteringly accurate visuals, only topped by the equally powerful Soviet / Russian National Anthem - which I can clearly recall - instrument by instrument - from my days as a foreign student in the former USSR. Politics of the present day be damned; nevertheless there’s no denying the immense contribution the USSR made to the Space Race. And this stunningly realistic animation literally brings it all home! Respect!!!
Your country won the large majority of the milestones for humanity. It’s without a doubt that without the USSR, space travel probably would’ve never happened.
@@arcosprey4811 I disagree with that. Humans are and have always been drawn to the endeavor of breaking boundaries and discovering the unknown. Yeah the Russians made most of the milestones, but most were unethical. Allowing them to just do what they want with minimal regard. Space travel would have definitely been inevitable. Especially due to the creations of sustained flight and the experiments and applications of rocket technology. Russia just happened to figure it out and executed with little precaution. Russia isn't a great example of human endeavor, it's a great example of human potential, just not the potential that is desired...
@@arcosprey4811 Those 'milestones' were for the USSR. The US had been planning its space effort since 1946. It was the US's ill-considered response to Soviet stunts that got Americans to the Moon by 1969.
@@arcosprey4811 Bez ZSSR by nebolo obsadenie a okupácia Československa, vojna v Afganistane, napadnutie Maďarska v roku 1956, napadnutie Poľska a Fínska v roku 1939 a hlavne napadnutie Ukrajiny v roku 2014 a 2022. Vesmírne lety by bez ZSSR boli. Treba pozerať na súčasnosť: kým na Marse behajú americké landre, a lieta americký vrtuľník Inuity, tak Rusko sa k Marsu ani len nepriblížilo, ich jediný "úspešný" pokus fungoval na Marse pár minút. Kým USA majú ďalekohĺady Huble, Webb, Spitzer tak rusi kradnú na Ukrajine WC misy. Smutné.
I saw the real Soviet lander along with a talk by Cosmonaut Alexi Leanov at the London Science Museum, it was the first time it had been shown outside Russia I think. It's tiny.
Your footage is outstanding. I would have liked to see the second stage separation and the translunar injection. The Soviet - because of the latitude of Baykonur - had to use even more fuel than the Americans to change their Earth orbital plane to that of the Moon. By the way, even if Sergei Korelev wouldn't have died in 1966, and Kuznetoff had fixed all the propulsion problems of the N1, the Soviet still didn't had a computer to drive the N1, the coasting to the Moon and the deorbit burns, and controlled the lander touchdown: they hadn't the various guidance computers; manual control is simply impossible. Thank you again for the outstanding film! Happy New Year! Anthony
Stalin had no idea how much he was imparing his country when he threw Korolev in a gulag in 1938. I am sure that contributed to his health issues. Dude died at 59.
Very nice work. Korolev's N-1 moon rocket had two very large handicaps compared to NASA and the Apollo/Saturn V: No super engine like the Rocketdyne F-1 for the Block A first stage booster and no hydrogen/oxygen (hydrolox) engines for the N-1 upper stages (Block B, Block V and Block G). Korolev made a mistake in trying to emulate von Braun's series-stage Saturn V in his N-1 design. He had a perfectly good parallel-stage launcher in the R-7 and its follow-on, the Soyuz launch vehicle. There was no technological roadblock to up-scaling the R-7 to a "Super R-7" that would use the newly designed NK-15/11D51 engines in the four strap-on boosters, the NK-15V engine in the core module, and the NK-21 engine in the upper stage. That moon rocket could place the 209,000-pound L3 payload into LEO and could land two cosmonauts on the lunar surface and return them to Earth. Each strap-on would have six NK-15/11D51 engines and the core would have six NK-15V engines. The upper stage would have four NK-21 engines. Thirty engines would be running at liftoff and produce 8.4 million pounds of thrust. The huge advantage with the Super R-7 is that the four side boosters and the core module could be ground-tested at full thrust/full duration with reasonably small test facilities. Korolev was not able to build the huge test stand needed to qualify the N-1 Block A booster stage which failed on three out of four launch attempts. NASA was able to ground test all three stages of the Saturn V full thrust/full duration for each flight vehicle. That was the secret to the success of the Apollo/Saturn program.
It is time to ask - how does Haze Gray get a hold of this archival footage? Should there be an inquiry? This is the best piece of work yet. By far. Magnificent. I am convinced it happened. The lighting and shadows in the landing scene - gorgeous.
As much as I like this (and I do, the animation, as always, is fantastic!), I believe a much more accurate depiction of a Russian lunar landing attempt would have been to show the LK lander plunging in an uncontrolled descent before shattering on impact with the lunar surface (probably against the wall of the crater it passed over). Based on much of what I've read (and the research came from Russian sources involved with their lunar program), the LK lander was a veritable deathtrap. According to them, it was almost certain to fail, costing the cosmonaut aboard his life. Either during descent (crashing onto the surface) or possibly failing to launch, leaving the cosmonaut stranded, or more mercifully exploding at ignition, killing him instantly. The articles I've read said that their material technology just was not up to par with NASA's, and their engines would either fail to ignite, or would explode like a bomb. In any case, though, great video! Love it, keep 'em coming!
I seem to recall that the cosmonaut was required to do an EVA to enter the LK (lunyii korabl) prior to separation in orbit. I think that Leonov considered the process "sporty."
RIP Sergei Korolyov, Yuri Gagarin & Alexei Leonov! Without their contributions, we wouldn't be where we are today. Let their heroic genius be a guiding beacon, a shining star, for all people on our beautiful earth to see! PEACE USSR LENIN!
@@u1zha thanks to him russia left the WW1, thanks to the USSR we beat the nazis, thanks to the USSR we sent the first man to the space, so yeah, USSR and peace are words that match together.
@@promaster4758 Nonsense. Lenin pulled Russia out of WWI in order to cement his revolution, thus allowing USSR to wage war on the entire world for three generations. The "Cold War" was in fact the real WWIII, waged across the globe through economic warfare, ideological warfare, espionage, iron fisted subjugation and occupation, hot war by proxy and revolution disguised as "wars of national liberation." Countless lives lost and Billions upon billions of dollars in meaningless waste.
Bueno d hecho si llegaron aunq no con un ser humano pero si con unos robots q exploraron la luna cada uno 1 mes y tomaron miles d fotografías y pasaron muchos datos eso fue en el 70 y 72 se llamaron lunode1 y 2
Не хочется вас расстраивать, но по задумке Сергея Павловича Королева, полет должен был длиться 2 года. Сначала высаживаются на Луну, потом летят на Марс
You only missed one detail: the LOK & LK spacecraft are coated with thermal cloth during the actual mission, not just exposed 'bare metals'. This cloth has been used on (almost?) all Soviet spacecraft
I remember a documentary talking about the Soviet moon missions. One part showed the inside of the LK. It looked like a steam locomotive. I would not have fancied trying to land it.
@@BaguetteGamingOfficial What exactly is Shitty? Free Education and Medicine? A guarantee from the State of work in the specialty? A huge number of children's developing creative circles (from painting to working models of airplanes), at the expense of the state. Yes, people in the USSR did not live richly, but they had everything, and most importantly, they had a guarantee of the future, and real progress, and not a new smartphone model 0.5 m thinner than the previous one. Alas, all this was ruined by the rotten leadership of the party (the Ruble is rotting from the head). Do not confuse scary fairy tales about the USSR, like the notorious management of labor correctional camps (for reference, many of these camps had amateur art clubs and libraries for prisoners), and the Real USSR (But it's really as bad as in your Western fairy tales, it would have disintegrated much faster, for example, immediately after WWII, when with thousands of trained soldiers and officers returned from the front, who had gone through a real hell, for example, the Battle of Kursk, by the way, my Grandfather, a Tankman, participated in it).
@@Тонилед the USSR was so good and popular among its citizens they had to build walls to keep them in and they had to send tanks to crush rebellions. What a great place to live in. Respect to your grandfather though, that battle was hell
@@BaguetteGamingOfficial What does the USSR have to do with it??? The Berlin Wall was (suddenly), in Berlin, East Germany was not part of the USSR, only its satellite (And it's not the Germans who complain about something after WWII, we already restored East Berlin before some of our cities, for example, Stalingrad was restored longer after the war, although the destruction there were sopostovimyn). And as for the events in Czechoslovakia, their government called us for a drink (and yes, the Czechoslovaks are also not part of the USSR, only an ally that is part of the zone of direct economic cooperation, hence the exchange of technologies, for example, we helped with the development of their Tatra). Once again, do not confuse the tales and Western propaganda about the USSR with the Real USSR. Yes, the USSR had a lot of its own problems (starting with the fact that it was a utopian state), that's why it eventually collapsed, but they have nothing to do with those terrible fairy tales that you tell in the West. Thank you for respecting my Grandfather, he went through the whole war, started near Moscow on the BT-5 in 1941, finished in Berlin in 1945 on the Is-2. By the way, he respected the Western Allies until his death (he died recently, having lived 111 years, a strong Pomor from Arkhangelsk, Pomor is such a northern mariner, they went to the Arctic for centuries on small sailing ships, Kochs, extracted Walruses and Whales). He said that those who together overcame such evil as the Third Reich will forever remain on the same side, despite all the efforts of stupid politicians.
Nice.. Would have been cool to see the cosmonaut do a spacewalk in order to get into the LK lander, but I’m guessing that’s a whole other level of complexity to animate.
I have often wondered if the Soviets could have pulled this Flight off. Their Hardware was far less Sophisticated than the American Hardware. Adding two Perilous Space Walks to transfer between the Main Ship and the Lander, also complicated the mission. The way the Descent Engine was discarded, and the Lander's engine only ignited shorty before the Touchdown, for only a few Seconds, as the fuel onboard was needed for the Ascent. I also wondered about the ability of the Soviets ability to pull off a Rendezvous in Lunar Orbit. It would have been interesting to say the least, had they been able to get the N1 working
NASA tested everything, every bolt, every circuit, every component. And they had at least one backup for every system, including an extra astronaut to land on the surface. And NASA had no shortage of failures that tested those backups and contingencies. The Russian space program was run on a shoestring budget. Testing meant actually flying. One successful flight after a dozen failures was considered ‘good enough. Backups? What backups! Their plan for a moon mission was so bare bones that it had no realistic chance of success. Armstrong very nearly crashed in 11. The ignition switch for the ascent engine broke and almost stranded them there. But they had backups and contingencies. It would only have taken one thing to go wrong on a Russian mission to result in failure. And the Russian mission control couldn’t even keep in contact with their astronauts most of the time because they didn’t have NASAs world wide radio dishes. It would have been a death sentence.
The LOK is flying in the wrong direction. The lander is supposed to be in the back and the block E escorts the landed to within 50 miles of the surface.
Will look it up 👍 Edit: looks pretty cool, very 'Tin-Tin' 2nd Edit: Bought it, pretty good alot of exposition but a book based on the Buran would be awesome 👍
I think the N1 should have a higher acceleration at lift-off since it had a much better thrust/weight ratio than the Saturn V. Otherwise an exellent video!
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Thrust/weight ratio isn't measured in seconds. It's simply the rocket's thrust divided by its weight, and it needs to be more than 1 in order for the rocket to lift off.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Some of them actually managed to lift off, but none of them made it to orbit. The fourth and last launch attempt in 1972 almost completed the first stage burn, and the mission might have been salvaged if the ground controllers had sent a manual signal to jettison that stage and start the second one a few seconds before planned.
NASA and even Armstrong predicted a 1-in-3 chance Apollo 11 would conduct a successful mission. If this video shows the USSR's actual plan for a manned landing, it's more like 1-in-33 chance of success!
Brilliantly imagined !-I can't help thinking how isolated and alone that solitary cosmonaut would have felt as the approaching moonscape swallowed him up
A soviet moon landing would have been smaller and riskier in many ways than the counterpart of the US .The lander only carried one cosmonaut . Also there was no docking tunnel between the service module and the lander. It would have been a tremendous achievement for one person to make the spacewalks before and after the moon landing after long hours of exhaustion. I would like to have seen more of the stageing process the N1 had after the launch.
Wait is that the Soyuz 1 radio transmissions in the background? (Ik its just placeholder cuz an actual moon landing never took place but Soyuz 1) Ye i checked its the one with some cosmonaut screaming for his life, but according to someone it never happened
@@UlmDoesAnything == The quotation seems to have originated at a secret US tracking station in Turkey where new employees were told about their predecessors hearing angry words from Komarov [even though he would have been ot of range of that site], and a tearful exchange with his wife, probably tall tales to wow the newbies. The story just got better and better over years of repetition. Not long ago, historians obtained copies of actual mission control center transcripts that showed Komarov expecting to survive the reentry, and at the last moment [when the spaceship was out of radio contact] the parachute failed to open.
As controversial as the Soviet Union was, it would have been nice to have another country land humans on the moon one day after the United States. If they had fixed the N-1's flaws with a new rocket, maybe that would have been the case. If they were able to fix this, maybe they could have gotten to the moon in the mid-1970s. But at that time, they just simply gave up, and I can't help but feel bad for the cosmonauts that never got the chance to follow in Armstrong's footsteps. Maybe during the Artemis missions, another country will do the same. But hopefully, it will all be friendly, with no conflict.
Excellent animation. Thanks. Humanity really dodged a bullet when the Soviet Moon program fizzled. I remember the Moon landings well, watched them from Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe. It was a technological race for men's souls. The bad guys lost. But they never gave up and, today, we are having the reckoning with Russia (where tyranny refused to die) that we never had with the rotten Soviet Union. I sure hope we win again! I believe we will. Slava Ukrainii!!
What are you writing? Bad guys..., ... dodged a bullet... Glory to Ukraine! There was a titanic work of Soviet scientists and engineers, yes, which did not take place due to objective circumstances, which in no way detracts from the achievements of Soviet cosmonautics. I will assume that with a high degree of probability, the occupation was already in your head and the Soviet Union, in your case, had nothing to occupy.
@@КонстантинА-э3е I don't mean to minimize the work of Soviet scientists and engineers. They did a fantastic job. But they were only able to do so because of lavish funding from their government, which was locked in a global Cold War - the epic struggle between (flawed) western democracy and (monstrous, murderous) Soviet tyranny. Around 1990, we thought that the war was over, but we were wrong. It continues today, and we must win it, again. So: Slava Ukrainii!
Wonderful presentation - animation is superb. One question - any idea what was the Soviet plan to get back off the moon? Did their Lunar lander separate like our did? Always impressed with this channel!!
Unlike the two-stage Apollo LEM with its separate descent and ascent engines, the Soviet LK was a "direct-ascent" lander, and would've taken off again using the same engine and fuel it landed with. It did jettison the now-useless landing legs, ladders, and scientific hardware upon takeoff, however, just like the LEM. It would eject the lander frame (instead of an entire empty rocket stage) and lift off as essentially a Baby Soyuz. The descent had to be planned in such a way that sufficient fuel was left over to get back into orbit (the orbiting Soyuz LOK was to conduct the rendezvous and docking maneuvers, easing this requirement somewhat), which vastly reduced the LK's contingency window/safety margin compared to the Apollo LEM. If the cosmonaut encountered rocks, mechanical difficulties, or other obstacles during the descent, they'd have to abort back to orbit and try again on the next N1 - the margins were too narrow to permit a go-around pass or last-minute landing zone change. The plan was to mitigate this risk through extensive reconnaissance of potential landing sites by unmanned missions (Lunokhod rovers and Luna photo probes).
Like the Apollo missions, the LK return profile would've used the lunar orbit rendezvous method: a specially-modified long-endurance two-man Soyuz, the LOK (from the Russian for "Lunar Orbiter Ship") would remain in orbit, firing its engines after the LK returned to orbit to rendezvous with and capture the lander. Unlike the Apollo LEM, the LK's docking system was too small and primitive to include a crew access trunk; all personnel and materiel transfers were to be done via a series of spacewalks. Once the LK pilot and the surface samples and scientific data they carried had been secured, the lander would be jettisoned and the LOK would fire its engines again to head home, landing via aerodynamic reentry and parachutes just like the Apollo missions.
Fine art! Так могло бы случиться в 1970 году к 100-летию рождения Ульянова -Ленина, но "не по Сеньке шапка оказалась" как заявил на закате жизни соратник С.П. Королёва, реализовывавший программу "Н1Л3" академик В.П. Мишин. Если бы десантирование на Луну космонавта с установкой флага, золотого бюста Ленина и научного оборудования всё же произошло, то СССР сохранился бы до сих пор. Но не случилось!!!
@@РоманЦиряпкин-х3т есть версия, что американцы выиграли Лунную гонку только виртуально, а в реальности была ничья и Луна так и остаётся непокорённой. Кто-то или что-то не даёт нам туда полететь, хотя технологически люди способны это сделать, хотя бы облететь без посадки.
The crater crossing before touch down was chefs kiss!
I really like the lunar crater landscape you used for the landing site. Well done. Great video!
The attention to detail is magnificent, especially the way you added an extra LK lander and the rovers that were part of the soviet lunar landing that a lot of people don’t know about
What was the second lander for? Supplies? How was the rover deployed if the second lander was unmanned?
I guess it was american rover)
@@peterloohunt It would have been 3 launches
One for an unmanned backup lander
One for a modified Lunokhod rover that could carry the cosmonaut to the backup if the main lander failed and was more than walking distance away
And the main lander itself
@@peterloohunt The rover was a lunokhod-like one, remote controlled from earth, and it was used as a radio beacon for precise landing. I think that the second LK lander was unmanned and "just in case there is a problem with the manned one".
@@rastersoft Ta!
I like the washout flash of light just as it clears the initial exhaust cloud, reminiscent of the recent Artemis SLS launch.
That was some seriously great renditioning of space flight! The "V" engine is what gets me the most. The dual stage, down to the rim-shot," graphics is perfect in throttle!
You should do a video on what would happen if you shot a weapon on the moon...
Thanks again for all you do. It's nothing but perfect!
Visually stunning as always - the attention to detail is remarkable- but then again it always is !
Finally!!! Our beloved Hercules, the Legendary N1-L3! 💪 My fav rocket virtually recreated by you by far! ❤ Even if every time a bittersweet feeling gets me for the Bureau system's concurrence and weaked soviet space politics of late 60s and early 70s which doomed Korolëv's Masterpiece even before it saw the light of day. ❤ In my mind, and I hope for the most of us, we want to think that you reached, as planned by Sergej, not only the Moon as showed here, but also Mars and Venus as the "Chief" invisioned for you! Wish you Godspeed in the Heaven of Rockets, Hercules! 🚀💪
I hope there will be a continuation with a moon base. Amazing work!
My sister kkk
Awesome, in the literal sense of the so-often over used word; but not here. The sense of history and drama, and cinematic style and detail are really terrific visually and genuinely add to our understanding of what the space race of the cold war was attempting to achieve.. Thanks for what you're doing and like so many who are also commenting i am eagerly anticipating your next. Cheers.
Hynu
thank you so much for this video, it is extremely well done!
Beautiful work! More of that, please!
The show "For All Mankind," is basically a historical retelling of an alternate history where the soviets won the space race. I definitely recommend.
1000% agree. Amazing show
@@CadMade95 I think anyone subbed to this channel would love that show.
The first 35 seconds… WOW!!!
It's a bunch of Russophobic garbage.
Americans just landed on moon first. Russians aldready won the space race. I recommend everybody to watch "BBC Cosmonauts:How Russia won the space race"
Ну а почему нет продолжения? Спускаемый аппарат был рассчитан но одного космонавта. Им должен был быть Алексей Леонов. Туда можно было добавить еще транспортное средство, луноход, на котором Леонов мог добраться до резервного корабля. А скафандр у него должен был быть оборудован обручем, который не даст космонавту в скафандре упасть. Потом старт с Луны, где посадочная ступень сыграет роль стартового стола. А на орбите стыковки с орбитальным кораблем не будет, его должны приблизить к лунному короблю и поймать специальным "богром", после чего лунный космонавт перелетает в орбитальный отсек, который выполнит роль шлюзовой камеры. И домой.
I love this detailed alternate history stuff!
The only thing wrong is the LOK is flying backwards in this video
@KVFutureGamer Timestamp please?
This is NOT an alternative history. It’s just a Soviet ship landing next to Eagle.
I'm sure if the Soviet Union never had issues with the N1 rocket 🚀 they probably would have pulled that off probably mid 1970s
Another excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
Powerful animation with blisteringly accurate visuals, only topped by the equally powerful Soviet / Russian National Anthem - which I can clearly recall - instrument by instrument - from my days as a foreign student in the former USSR. Politics of the present day be damned; nevertheless there’s no denying the immense contribution the USSR made to the Space Race. And this stunningly realistic animation literally brings it all home! Respect!!!
Your country won the large majority of the milestones for humanity. It’s without a doubt that without the USSR, space travel probably would’ve never happened.
@@arcosprey4811 I disagree with that. Humans are and have always been drawn to the endeavor of breaking boundaries and discovering the unknown. Yeah the Russians made most of the milestones, but most were unethical. Allowing them to just do what they want with minimal regard. Space travel would have definitely been inevitable. Especially due to the creations of sustained flight and the experiments and applications of rocket technology. Russia just happened to figure it out and executed with little precaution. Russia isn't a great example of human endeavor, it's a great example of human potential, just not the potential that is desired...
@@arcosprey4811 Those 'milestones' were for the USSR. The US had been planning its space effort since 1946. It was the US's ill-considered response to Soviet stunts that got Americans to the Moon by 1969.
@@arcosprey4811 Bez ZSSR by nebolo obsadenie a okupácia Československa, vojna v Afganistane, napadnutie Maďarska v roku 1956, napadnutie Poľska a Fínska v roku 1939 a hlavne napadnutie Ukrajiny v roku 2014 a 2022. Vesmírne lety by bez ZSSR boli. Treba pozerať na súčasnosť: kým na Marse behajú americké landre, a lieta americký vrtuľník Inuity, tak Rusko sa k Marsu ani len nepriblížilo, ich jediný "úspešný" pokus fungoval na Marse pár minút. Kým USA majú ďalekohĺady Huble, Webb, Spitzer tak rusi kradnú na Ukrajine WC misy. Smutné.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver Yeah, german scientist fon braun and his team planned americans to get into space. After he has done his business with nazis lol.
Remembered the N1 hot staging this time but forgot the "nesting jet" landing rockets on the LK :^)
the amount of detail in your videos are amazing dawg
I saw the real Soviet lander along with a talk by Cosmonaut Alexi Leanov at the London Science Museum, it was the first time it had been shown outside Russia I think. It's tiny.
Your footage is outstanding. I would have liked to see the second stage separation and the translunar injection. The Soviet - because of the latitude of Baykonur - had to use even more fuel than the Americans to change their Earth orbital plane to that of the Moon.
By the way, even if Sergei Korelev wouldn't have died in 1966, and Kuznetoff had fixed all the propulsion problems of the N1, the Soviet still didn't had a computer to drive the N1, the coasting to the Moon and the deorbit burns, and controlled the lander touchdown: they hadn't the various guidance computers; manual control is simply impossible.
Thank you again for the outstanding film!
Happy New Year!
Anthony
Stalin had no idea how much he was imparing his country when he threw Korolev in a gulag in 1938. I am sure that contributed to his health issues. Dude died at 59.
@@Link2edition I'm sure he had a pretty good idea. He just didn't care.
А на АС "Луна-16" бы компьютер? Нет? А тогда как она пролетела над поверхностью 200 метров?
@@АлексейМихайлович-ж5ж it is a langage issue the computer on early space mission (soviet and american) where mecanical and they where alsome
Very nice work.
Korolev's N-1 moon rocket had two very large handicaps compared to NASA and the Apollo/Saturn V: No super engine like the Rocketdyne F-1 for the Block A first stage booster and no hydrogen/oxygen (hydrolox) engines for the N-1 upper stages (Block B, Block V and Block G).
Korolev made a mistake in trying to emulate von Braun's series-stage Saturn V in his N-1 design. He had a perfectly good parallel-stage launcher in the R-7 and its follow-on, the Soyuz launch vehicle. There was no technological roadblock to up-scaling the R-7 to a "Super R-7" that would use the newly designed NK-15/11D51 engines in the four strap-on boosters, the NK-15V engine in the core module, and the NK-21 engine in the upper stage. That moon rocket could place the 209,000-pound L3 payload into LEO and could land two cosmonauts on the lunar surface and return them to Earth.
Each strap-on would have six NK-15/11D51 engines and the core would have six NK-15V engines. The upper stage would have four NK-21 engines. Thirty engines would be running at liftoff and produce 8.4 million pounds of thrust.
The huge advantage with the Super R-7 is that the four side boosters and the core module could be ground-tested at full thrust/full duration with reasonably small test facilities. Korolev was not able to build the huge test stand needed to qualify the N-1 Block A booster stage which failed on three out of four launch attempts.
NASA was able to ground test all three stages of the Saturn V full thrust/full duration for each flight vehicle. That was the secret to the success of the Apollo/Saturn program.
It is time to ask - how does Haze Gray get a hold of this archival footage? Should there be an inquiry? This is the best piece of work yet. By far. Magnificent. I am convinced it happened. The lighting and shadows in the landing scene - gorgeous.
Das Video ist sehr gut gemacht worden.
I can't believe how good this is! Well done!!!!
Привет из России, это было эпично! Гордость за СССР
Nice! You showed the N-1 hot staging, therefore fixing an error you made in an older N-1 video of yours.
As much as I like this (and I do, the animation, as always, is fantastic!), I believe a much more accurate depiction of a Russian lunar landing attempt would have been to show the LK lander plunging in an uncontrolled descent before shattering on impact with the lunar surface (probably against the wall of the crater it passed over). Based on much of what I've read (and the research came from Russian sources involved with their lunar program), the LK lander was a veritable deathtrap. According to them, it was almost certain to fail, costing the cosmonaut aboard his life. Either during descent (crashing onto the surface) or possibly failing to launch, leaving the cosmonaut stranded, or more mercifully exploding at ignition, killing him instantly. The articles I've read said that their material technology just was not up to par with NASA's, and their engines would either fail to ignite, or would explode like a bomb.
In any case, though, great video! Love it, keep 'em coming!
I seem to recall that the cosmonaut was required to do an EVA to enter the LK (lunyii korabl) prior to separation in orbit. I think that Leonov considered the process "sporty."
Lol
RIP Sergei Korolyov, Yuri Gagarin & Alexei Leonov! Without their contributions, we wouldn't be where we are today.
Let their heroic genius be a guiding beacon, a shining star, for all people on our beautiful earth to see! PEACE USSR LENIN!
Look up Lenin, not sure you'll ever again consider putting him in one sentence with PEACE
@@u1zha thanks to him russia left the WW1, thanks to the USSR we beat the nazis, thanks to the USSR we sent the first man to the space, so yeah, USSR and peace are words that match together.
@@u1zha agreed. Lenin was NOT PEACEFUL.
@@u1zha I'm aware of the history, I was simply quoting the first ever signal sent to interstellar space: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morse_Message_(1962)
@@promaster4758 Nonsense. Lenin pulled Russia out of WWI in order to cement his revolution, thus allowing USSR to wage war on the entire world for three generations. The "Cold War" was in fact the real WWIII, waged across the globe through economic warfare, ideological warfare, espionage, iron fisted subjugation and occupation, hot war by proxy and revolution disguised as "wars of national liberation." Countless lives lost and Billions upon billions of dollars in meaningless waste.
Beautifully created Video and I'm sure that it took sometime to put it all together. Nice work.
Fantastic!!!! What an amazing 5 minutes you have created here!!!!
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It's a shame that the N-1 never worked properly 🥺
It almost did before they cancelled. N1 tells us value of proper QA and YAGNI in space programs.
And Its a shame Korolev died before the N1...
Fun fact: N1 has the same (almost) power to the SpaceX’s Starship
@@AmtrakCitiesSprinter64 dunno if it's true but actually the N1 had 4,620 tonnes of thrust and the Falcon Heavy "only" 2,267 tonnes of thrust
@@valecasini I said the Starship, not the Falcon Heavy
Świetny filmik! 😁 aż ciarki przechodzą po skórze! Pozdrawiam!😉😄
Absolutely flawless. How did you make that moon in 3d???
Great video! I especially loved it when the rocket was climbing and we were in a propeller plane watching it like back in the 60's! Awesome!
Really well done. Amazing work.
I really think the Soviets would have avoided that gigantic crater by more than a couple dozen feet!
This is amazing! Thank you!
Should have made a small clip of an a apollo mission just watching the lander fly above them like it happend with Apollo11 and the LUNA probe lol
that rocket with that many engines were truly insane
Shame they cancelled it before the update flew
Very good video, thanks. It is a pity that the Soviet lunar program was not carried out.
Спасибо за анимацию, кстати для иностранцев, даже переговоры сделаны на русском!)
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"Бл.., чуть не шмякнулся о стену кратера, но "Голубь мира" прилунился!" (с) Леонов :))
>>граф Гагарин со Спутником испытал Восторг и Изумление.\из кинофильма (т.м)
Ure vids are pure art. As a space geek I love them. How long time did it take to make this one?
That crater shot was chefs kiss
If Soviets had landed on the Moon we'd be on Mars now. America would have taken the space race to the next level.
Bueno d hecho si llegaron aunq no con un ser humano pero si con unos robots q exploraron la luna cada uno 1 mes y tomaron miles d fotografías y pasaron muchos datos eso fue en el 70 y 72 se llamaron lunode1 y 2
You should watch a series called For all mankind. Exactly that is what happens there.
@@FeverDev64 I think that he has already watched it when writing this comment.
Не хочется вас расстраивать, но по задумке Сергея Павловича Королева, полет должен был длиться 2 года. Сначала высаживаются на Луну, потом летят на Марс
So why didn’t they? No excuses
You only missed one detail: the LOK & LK spacecraft are coated with thermal cloth during the actual mission, not just exposed 'bare metals'.
This cloth has been used on (almost?) all Soviet spacecraft
Superb video. Graphics and color so much clearer than Apollo13. Love it
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Super video as always
I remember a documentary talking about the Soviet moon missions. One part showed the inside of the LK. It looked like a steam locomotive. I would not have fancied trying to land it.
Really great renders! I like the attention to detail. :) Imagine if that bright blue hatch was the Eye of Sauron...
Beautiful.. man the fact he HAD to come out.. while in orbit on the mood to get to the lander tells you the Soviets really rushed this..
What a nice animation! And the Soviet anthem makes it more amazing. Makes me feel patriotic to the USSR.
Same but then i remember how shitty it was
@@BaguetteGamingOfficial What exactly is Shitty?
Free Education and Medicine?
A guarantee from the State of work in the specialty?
A huge number of children's developing creative circles (from painting to working models of airplanes), at the expense of the state.
Yes, people in the USSR did not live richly, but they had everything, and most importantly, they had a guarantee of the future, and real progress, and not a new smartphone model 0.5 m thinner than the previous one. Alas, all this was ruined by the rotten leadership of the party (the Ruble is rotting from the head).
Do not confuse scary fairy tales about the USSR, like the notorious management of labor correctional camps (for reference, many of these camps had amateur art clubs and libraries for prisoners), and the Real USSR (But it's really as bad as in your Western fairy tales, it would have disintegrated much faster, for example, immediately after WWII, when with thousands of trained soldiers and officers returned from the front, who had gone through a real hell, for example, the Battle of Kursk, by the way, my Grandfather, a Tankman, participated in it).
@@Тонилед the USSR was so good and popular among its citizens they had to build walls to keep them in and they had to send tanks to crush rebellions. What a great place to live in. Respect to your grandfather though, that battle was hell
@@BaguetteGamingOfficial What does the USSR have to do with it???
The Berlin Wall was (suddenly), in Berlin, East Germany was not part of the USSR, only its satellite (And it's not the Germans who complain about something after WWII, we already restored East Berlin before some of our cities, for example, Stalingrad was restored longer after the war, although the destruction there were sopostovimyn).
And as for the events in Czechoslovakia, their government called us for a drink (and yes, the Czechoslovaks are also not part of the USSR, only an ally that is part of the zone of direct economic cooperation, hence the exchange of technologies, for example, we helped with the development of their Tatra).
Once again, do not confuse the tales and Western propaganda about the USSR with the Real USSR.
Yes, the USSR had a lot of its own problems (starting with the fact that it was a utopian state), that's why it eventually collapsed, but they have nothing to do with those terrible fairy tales that you tell in the West.
Thank you for respecting my Grandfather, he went through the whole war, started near Moscow on the BT-5 in 1941, finished in Berlin in 1945 on the Is-2.
By the way, he respected the Western Allies until his death (he died recently, having lived 111 years, a strong Pomor from Arkhangelsk, Pomor is such a northern mariner, they went to the Arctic for centuries on small sailing ships, Kochs, extracted Walruses and Whales).
He said that those who together overcame such evil as the Third Reich will forever remain on the same side, despite all the efforts of stupid politicians.
😂At the ending I was rolling in laughter, thanks.🤣🤣🤣🤣
WE NEED A MOON BASE AND I WANNA GO LIVE THERE
when that enormous crater appeared, beautiful.
Had to wonder if their lander caught a bit of a loft when overflying that crater from the reduced gravity :)
@@hubbsllc I had the exact same thought.
Nice.. Would have been cool to see the cosmonaut do a spacewalk in order to get into the LK lander, but I’m guessing that’s a whole other level of complexity to animate.
1:30 Look closely at the LOK
Absolutely marvelous animation hazegrayart!!
Great video. Like the inclusion of the backup lander. Never seen in any other video.
You’re amazing! It’s like visiting parallel universe
I have often wondered if the Soviets could have pulled this Flight off. Their Hardware was far less Sophisticated than the American Hardware. Adding two Perilous Space Walks to transfer between the Main Ship and the Lander, also complicated the mission. The way the Descent Engine was discarded, and the Lander's engine only ignited shorty before the Touchdown, for only a few Seconds, as the fuel onboard was needed for the Ascent. I also wondered about the ability of the Soviets ability to pull off a Rendezvous in Lunar Orbit. It would have been interesting to say the least, had they been able to get the N1 working
NASA tested everything, every bolt, every circuit, every component. And they had at least one backup for every system, including an extra astronaut to land on the surface.
And NASA had no shortage of failures that tested those backups and contingencies.
The Russian space program was run on a shoestring budget. Testing meant actually flying. One successful flight after a dozen failures was considered ‘good enough. Backups? What backups!
Their plan for a moon mission was so bare bones that it had no realistic chance of success. Armstrong very nearly crashed in 11. The ignition switch for the ascent engine broke and almost stranded them there. But they had backups and contingencies.
It would only have taken one thing to go wrong on a Russian mission to result in failure. And the Russian mission control couldn’t even keep in contact with their astronauts most of the time because they didn’t have NASAs world wide radio dishes.
It would have been a death sentence.
Exceptional Tovoritch 😉
All Workers of the Moon, Unite!
1:33 It sounds like someone is getting dental work done on their way to the moon
The LOK is flying in the wrong direction. The lander is supposed to be in the back and the block E escorts the landed to within 50 miles of the surface.
I refer you to my grafic novel " 1969 the phantom odyssey " which is an alternative history of the race to the Moon for those who do not know it yet
Will look it up 👍
Edit: looks pretty cool, very 'Tin-Tin'
2nd Edit: Bought it, pretty good alot of exposition but a book based on the Buran would be awesome 👍
I think the N1 should have a higher acceleration at lift-off since it had a much better thrust/weight ratio than the Saturn V. Otherwise an exellent video!
The N1 had thrust/weight ratio for 31 seconds.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
Thrust/weight ratio isn't measured in seconds.
It's simply the rocket's thrust divided by its weight, and it needs to be more than 1 in order for the rocket to lift off.
@@fromnorway643 I meant that the N1 never got anywhere.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver
Some of them actually managed to lift off, but none of them made it to orbit.
The fourth and last launch attempt in 1972 almost completed the first stage burn, and the mission might have been salvaged if the ground controllers had sent a manual signal to jettison that stage and start the second one a few seconds before planned.
@@fromnorway643 Sounds utterly unreliable.
NASA and even Armstrong predicted a 1-in-3 chance Apollo 11 would conduct a successful mission. If this video shows the USSR's actual plan for a manned landing, it's more like 1-in-33 chance of success!
Armstrong predicted 50% success and 90 % surviving the mission.
Brilliantly imagined !-I can't help thinking how isolated and alone that solitary cosmonaut would have felt as the approaching moonscape swallowed him up
It's said if not cancelled, 5th attempt of N1 would have most probably work.
I am not sure. However Sergei Korolevs death really hampered the program. With him still in hcarge, who knows. We may have had a red moon.
A soviet moon landing would have been smaller and riskier in many ways than the counterpart of the US .The lander only carried one cosmonaut .
Also there was no docking tunnel between the service module and the lander.
It would have been a tremendous achievement for one person to make the spacewalks before and after the moon landing after long hours of exhaustion.
I would like to have seen more of the stageing process the N1 had after the launch.
One again surpassing you self. The quality is worth of "For All Mankind".
All for man kind be like
Goofy ahh space shuttle to the moon, Fuc that show
Hi man kind Jacob family together in need help on ship flow wind*/matthew 1-9
Correct
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@@praba4036 Hi man kind Praba. Have recieved the SOS. Sending help */Phillip 1-9
Wait is that the Soyuz 1 radio transmissions in the background? (Ik its just placeholder cuz an actual moon landing never took place but Soyuz 1)
Ye i checked its the one with some cosmonaut screaming for his life, but according to someone it never happened
" i checked its the one with Komarov screaming for his life" == Which never happened, actually.
@@JamesOberg oh interesting was it made up?
@@UlmDoesAnything == The quotation seems to have originated at a secret US tracking station in Turkey where new employees were told about their predecessors hearing angry words from Komarov [even though he would have been ot of range of that site], and a tearful exchange with his wife, probably tall tales to wow the newbies. The story just got better and better over years of repetition. Not long ago, historians obtained copies of actual mission control center transcripts that showed Komarov expecting to survive the reentry, and at the last moment [when the spaceship was out of radio contact] the parachute failed to open.
@@JamesOberg interesting new info, ok!
Nicely done.
Observation: Shadows stretch out when transitioning up a sloped surface, such as the crater wall.
As controversial as the Soviet Union was, it would have been nice to have another country land humans on the moon one day after the United States. If they had fixed the N-1's flaws with a new rocket, maybe that would have been the case. If they were able to fix this, maybe they could have gotten to the moon in the mid-1970s. But at that time, they just simply gave up, and I can't help but feel bad for the cosmonauts that never got the chance to follow in Armstrong's footsteps. Maybe during the Artemis missions, another country will do the same. But hopefully, it will all be friendly, with no conflict.
Excellent animation. Thanks. Humanity really dodged a bullet when the Soviet Moon program fizzled. I remember the Moon landings well, watched them from Soviet-occupied Eastern Europe. It was a technological race for men's souls. The bad guys lost. But they never gave up and, today, we are having the reckoning with Russia (where tyranny refused to die) that we never had with the rotten Soviet Union. I sure hope we win again! I believe we will. Slava Ukrainii!!
What are you writing? Bad guys..., ... dodged a bullet... Glory to Ukraine! There was a titanic work of Soviet scientists and engineers, yes, which did not take place due to objective circumstances, which in no way detracts from the achievements of Soviet cosmonautics. I will assume that with a high degree of probability, the occupation was already in your head and the Soviet Union, in your case, had nothing to occupy.
@@КонстантинА-э3е I don't mean to minimize the work of Soviet scientists and engineers. They did a fantastic job. But they were only able to do so because of lavish funding from their government, which was locked in a global Cold War - the epic struggle between (flawed) western democracy and (monstrous, murderous) Soviet tyranny. Around 1990, we thought that the war was over, but we were wrong. It continues today, and we must win it, again. So: Slava Ukrainii!
Ганьба Україні, фекалії, твоя країна
1:41 Sad Is that You used the Recording of the last words of Vladimir Komarov (Who died on Mission "Soyuz 1" - If someone didn't know)
1:34 The LK should be in its fairing. That's how it's attached to the Soyuz.
Wonderful presentation - animation is superb. One question - any idea what was the Soviet plan to get back off the moon? Did their Lunar lander separate like our did? Always impressed with this channel!!
Unlike the two-stage Apollo LEM with its separate descent and ascent engines, the Soviet LK was a "direct-ascent" lander, and would've taken off again using the same engine and fuel it landed with.
It did jettison the now-useless landing legs, ladders, and scientific hardware upon takeoff, however, just like the LEM. It would eject the lander frame (instead of an entire empty rocket stage) and lift off as essentially a Baby Soyuz.
The descent had to be planned in such a way that sufficient fuel was left over to get back into orbit (the orbiting Soyuz LOK was to conduct the rendezvous and docking maneuvers, easing this requirement somewhat), which vastly reduced the LK's contingency window/safety margin compared to the Apollo LEM. If the cosmonaut encountered rocks, mechanical difficulties, or other obstacles during the descent, they'd have to abort back to orbit and try again on the next N1 - the margins were too narrow to permit a go-around pass or last-minute landing zone change. The plan was to mitigate this risk through extensive reconnaissance of potential landing sites by unmanned missions (Lunokhod rovers and Luna photo probes).
Like the Apollo missions, the LK return profile would've used the lunar orbit rendezvous method: a specially-modified long-endurance two-man Soyuz, the LOK (from the Russian for "Lunar Orbiter Ship") would remain in orbit, firing its engines after the LK returned to orbit to rendezvous with and capture the lander. Unlike the Apollo LEM, the LK's docking system was too small and primitive to include a crew access trunk; all personnel and materiel transfers were to be done via a series of spacewalks.
Once the LK pilot and the surface samples and scientific data they carried had been secured, the lander would be jettisoned and the LOK would fire its engines again to head home, landing via aerodynamic reentry and parachutes just like the Apollo missions.
Very interesting, thanks for the info.
glad to see a fresh N1 animation from hazegrayart
Best looking moon rocket off the bunch but never really got far off the ground. What a shame ☺️
And the 'All Mankind' timeline began...
No not All mankind For All Mankind
Fine art! Так могло бы случиться в 1970 году к 100-летию рождения Ульянова -Ленина, но "не по Сеньке шапка оказалась" как заявил на закате жизни соратник С.П. Королёва, реализовывавший программу "Н1Л3" академик В.П. Мишин. Если бы десантирование на Луну космонавта с установкой флага, золотого бюста Ленина и научного оборудования всё же произошло, то СССР сохранился бы до сих пор. Но не случилось!!!
Так всё и происходило, но только в альтернативной реальности.
Остаётся только посмотреть сериал "Ради всего человечества".
@@РоманЦиряпкин-х3т есть версия, что американцы выиграли Лунную гонку только виртуально, а в реальности была ничья и Луна так и остаётся непокорённой. Кто-то или что-то не даёт нам туда полететь, хотя технологически люди способны это сделать, хотя бы облететь без посадки.
@@РоманЦиряпкин-х3т он не занудный случайно? А то год -два назад не смог одолеть даже первую серию . Но может я поспешил... 🙄
Who filmed all this amazing footage? Was there a camera crew rocket too?😜
Love the cameramen in deep space chilling waiting for those shots of spacecraft. Wonder if they get hungry 🧐
Montage with anthem is cool 👍
4:41 что это в правом верхнем угле???????????????? 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐😑😑😑😑🤨🤨🤨🤨🤨
Lunniy Korabl is so good lunar lander
They can’t even detect 1970s drones, I doubt they can go further than st. Petersburg.
Ну наконец то, слетали на луну, с помощью амеиканской 3D программы))
Надеюсь космонавт вл.владимирович?
насколько я помню, в лунной программе ссср космонавт должен был переходить в лунный спускаемый модуль через космос из лунного орбитального корабля...
Stop War.
From India 🇮🇳.
this is nice I can see for all man kind sci fi show series a thing again
Beautiful graphics
I wonder if Sergei Korolev had not died would the soviets have beaten the americans to the moon?
Good question, the consensus is the challenge was too great for even him, so he died conveniently early enough to preserve his reputation.
“The moon is red”
-Yuri Gagarin
An animation of Barmingrad/Zvezda-Base would be cool
And now UR-700 and Moon Direct LK-700, please.
(In this Channel was only UR-700 launch.