Soviet Moon Landing an Alternative History
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2022
- The LK was a lunar module (lunar lander designed for human spaceflight) developed in the 1960s as a part of several Soviet crewed lunar programs. Its role was analogous to the American Apollo Lunar Module (LM). Three LK modules, of the T2K variant, were flown without crew in Earth orbit, but no LK ever reached the Moon. The development of the N1 launch vehicle required for the lunar flight suffered setbacks (including several launch failures), and the first Moon landings were achieved by US astronauts on Apollo 11. As a result, having lost the Space Race, both the N1 and the LK programs were cancelled without any further development.
Sergei Korolev, the lead Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer during the 1950s and 1960s, planned to adopt the same lunar orbit rendezvous concept as seen in the Apollo program. The lunar expedition spacecraft L3 was to consist of a Soyuz 7K-L3 Command Ship (a variant of the Soyuz) and an LK Lander. L3 would carry a two-man crew atop a single three-stage superheavy N-1 booster. A fourth stage, the Blok G, would push the L3 (LOK+LK) toward the Moon, with the Blok D as a fifth stage.
LK compared to the Apollo Lunar Module
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 had a different landing profile
It was lighter at only one-third the mass of the LM
Initially the LK was to have carried a single cosmonaut. A later variant would have a two-man crew; the LM carried two
It had no docking tunnel like the LM's; the cosmonaut would space walk from the LOK (Soyuz 7K-L3) to the LK and back
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LK Lunar Lander, Soyuz-Lok, N1 Rocket service tower,3rd Stage n1 Models from Sketchfab user "Soviet Model Magic" 
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The crater crossing before touch down was chefs kiss!
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.
I really like the lunar crater landscape you used for the landing site. Well done. Great video!
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.
I hope there will be a continuation with a moon base. Amazing work!
My sister kkk
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?
@@user-vz1yr7bx8h it is a langage issue the computer on early space mission (soviet and american) where mecanical and they where alsome
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
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!
Remembered the N1 hot staging this time but forgot the "nesting jet" landing rockets on the LK :^)
Visually stunning as always - the attention to detail is remarkable- but then again it always is !
Beautiful work! More of that, please!
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.
thank you so much for this video, it is extremely well done!
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...
Another way of saying “if only they had enough funding for full-stage testing on the ground”, or “if only the issue on the fourth flight had presented itself five or ten seconds later, giving the vehicle enough time to stage”. What’s especially sad is the fact that two flight-ready N1s were scrapped because of the program’s cancellation, even though all they needed was fuel and a trip on the Grasshopper out to the launch pad.
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
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.
Спасибо за анимацию, кстати для иностранцев, даже переговоры сделаны на русском!)
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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
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!
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! 🚀💪
glad to see a fresh N1 animation from hazegrayart
Świetny filmik! 😁 aż ciarki przechodzą po skórze! Pozdrawiam!😉😄
You just keep getting better and better!
Very good video, thanks. It is a pity that the Soviet lunar program was not carried out.
Beautifully created Video and I'm sure that it took sometime to put it all together. Nice work.
Nice! You showed the N-1 hot staging, therefore fixing an error you made in an older N-1 video of yours.
I can't believe how good this is! Well done!!!!
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"
that rocket with that many engines were truly insane
Shame they cancelled it before the update flew
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.
the amount of detail in your videos are amazing dawg
Really well done. Amazing work.
Так всё и происходило, но только в альтернативной реальности.
Остаётся только посмотреть сериал "Ради всего человечества".
@@user-ys3rb6hf4s 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.
@@user-ys3rb6hf4s он не занудный случайно? А то год -два назад не смог одолеть даже первую серию . Но может я поспешил... 🙄
WONDERFUL ! Thanks !! And great job !
Absolutely flawless. How did you make that moon in 3d???
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
Fantastic!!!! What an amazing 5 minutes you have created here!!!!
😁
"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)
Super video as always
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 👍
WE NEED A MOON BASE AND I WANNA GO LIVE THERE
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
Ure vids are pure art. As a space geek I love them. How long time did it take to make this one?
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 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.
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..
Really great renders! I like the attention to detail. :) Imagine if that bright blue hatch was the Eye of Sauron...
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.
Absolutely marvelous animation hazegrayart!!
That crater shot was chefs kiss
All Workers of the Moon, Unite!
I really think the Soviets would have avoided that gigantic crater by more than a couple dozen feet!
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.
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.
Great video. Like the inclusion of the backup lander. Never seen in any other video.
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.
Superb video. Graphics and color so much clearer than Apollo13. Love it
🙃😉
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
@@praba4036what
@@praba4036 Hi man kind Praba. Have recieved the SOS. Sending help */Phillip 1-9
For All Mankind: Prologue.
спасибо Вам! 🥲
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.
Exceptional Tovoritch 😉
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.
Жалко что у нас не получилось(
Pero si llegaron y aun hay miles de años para que puedan llegar otra vez, la luna aun esta ahi
@@alexcarbajal5215 Algún día llegaremos allí.) Mi sueño es ver la retransmisión de Titán))
не печалься. ни у кого не получилось. а кино снимать, дело не хитрое.
@@user-vd6rd4bb5j у американцев как раз вышло. А в 24 году они собираются повторить. Надеюсь и мы доберемся
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.
Very chatty lot, those cosmonauts.
Thanks. Very interesting.
me encanto , de casualidad conoces el proyecto SOYUZ ABC que era para ir ala luna también ?
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!!!
Very good
Nicely done.
Observation: Shadows stretch out when transitioning up a sloped surface, such as the crater wall.
Woooauuw !!! This is amazing !!! 👍👍👍
Отлично сделано ! Лайк ! Молодец автор !
An animation of Barmingrad/Zvezda-Base would be cool
One again surpassing you self. The quality is worth of "For All Mankind".
It was fun. Thanks 👍👍
This is what Leonov would have experience if N1-L3 went according to plan
this is nice I can see for all man kind sci fi show series a thing again
Another excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
Beautiful !
Жаль что слова не разобрать - я услышал только пару слов
Beautiful graphics
And now UR-700 and Moon Direct LK-700, please.
(In this Channel was only UR-700 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
" i checked its the one with Komarov screaming for his life" == Which never happened, actually.
@@JamesOberg oh interesting was it made up?
@@UlmerCubingandMore == 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!
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.
All the kudos for these animations. As far as I know, all parts of the Soviet Moon landing project have been tested and worked except for the first stage of the N1 rocket. This stage was huge and required building new test facility to test the stage as a whole, but this was deemed expensive and unnecessary. Now we see that not having such a test facility ruined the entire project.
So, do all the things properly and think less about cutting corners here and there - that's the lesson need to be learned from that, I guess.
Sovietska ekonomika nebola schopná uskutočniť taký nákladný projekt akou bolo pristátie na Mesiaci. A hlavným nepriateľom bola ruská mentalita, ktorá brala pristátie na Mesiaci ako politickú súťaž s USA, kým američania brali dobitie Mesiaca ako technologickú a vedeckú výzvu.
@@nemezis2224 Economics-wise the United States were spending on Apollo Moon landing project way more than the USSR did, right. It was single-digits expenditures of the entire country budged - today's NASA budget can only dream about such a flow of money.
But I completely disagree that the US treated this differently than the USSR and were not considering it an undertaking for political and prestige goals. All subsequent events tell us that it was exactly a political undertaking to a greater extent.
The last two Moon landings were canceled and there have been no Moon landings since... because they're expensive and no longer needed anymore after the political goals have been achieved. And even Mars landing project was canceled despite there was a visible progress on nuclear-powered Saturn-V second stage exactly for this project. And now, when China wants to place a human on the Moon, we find the US working on a Moon landing again. So again political competition spurs the Moon race.
@@user-by5yo5ex3y Porovnávať výdavky ZSSR a USA nie je celkom možné, pretože kým na projektoch pracovali ruskí vedci zväčša z donútenia a za smiešne peniaze (resp, aj zadarmo), tak NASA svojich odborníkov platila dobre. Len na margo, Koroľov bol väznený v gulagu, pri výsluchu mu zlomili čeľusť a vybili polovicu zubov. Áno, posledné 2 americké pristátia boli zrušené, pretože o peniazoch rozhodoval senát a nie politbyro, alebo generálny tajomník ako v Rusku. To je výhoda demokracie, emíňať peniaze na zbytočnosti. A čo sa týka americkej základe na Mesiaci: tá má slúžiť ako predvoj pristátia na Marse a na odskúšanie nových technológií. Pristátie na Marse ma totiž NASA stále v pláne, aj keď termín nie je (vzhľadom na náročnosť a potrebné financie) stále presný.
@@nemezis2224 you are literally retelling the US propaganda booklet. As if everything was white or black and there was nothing in the USSR but prison camps. Also the US have and operate Guantanamo prison camp on Cuban territory right now, despite all the protests from Cuba. USSR had prison camps at least on own territory 😄I know all these "facts" you are talking about - nothing new to me here.
And about democracy - it looks political elites in the EU cannot care less about what their population wants right now. So much about stated democracy.
I'm not going to argue or try to change your mind. But I find your view on the subject terribly one-sided. But it's not that I care and would like to start an argument on this topic. This will be another useless Internet dispute that no one wants, so no.
@@user-by5yo5ex3y Napísal som len overiteľné fakty. Áno, na Guantanáme je nelegálna väznica (s ktorou určite nesúhlasím), na rozdiel od sovietskych gulagov ale internuje potencionálnych nepriateľov USA, nie odporcov komunistického režimu ako to bolo v ZSSR. A na rozdiel od ZSSR v Guantanáme boli stovky väzňov, nie milióny ako v ruských gulagoch. Komunizmus a sovietsku diktatúru som zažil aj s jej klamstvami, polopravdami a prekrúcaním skutočností. Preto mám taký názor aký mám.
That's really really good 👍
Lunniy Korabl is so good lunar lander
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.
Cool video
Montage with anthem is cool 👍
AMAZING!
How they are recording that vedio?
Beautiful ♥
Nanoscopic orbital mechanics nitpicking: When the LK+Block D separate from the LOK, The LK is accelerated prograde and thus, will be in the higher orbit. So, while you had it right, that the LK should reverse its motion relative to the initially slower flying LOK, the LK should be above the LOK, not the other way around. For your vertical stacking, the orientation would have to be reversed: LK is separated retrograde, LK prograde (and both move away from their docked center of gravity), now the LK lost orbital energy, descends closer to the moon and while moving down the gravity well, accelerates relative to the LOK, which is slowed down by fighting against gravity on its climb upwards. Don't worry, needed to watch it a third time until finally realizing why this felt wrong while looking so right.Old rule of thumb for relative navigation in space: Going up makes you go back, going back makes you go down, going down makes you go forward, going forward makes you go up, da capo....
This is amazing! Thank you!
1:34 The LK should be in its fairing. That's how it's attached to the Soyuz.
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)
Amigo obrigado por compartilhar essa experiência, urrahhh.