N1 moonrocket by RobertJ
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The N-1 was a heavy lift rocket intended to deliver payloads beyond low Earth orbit, acting as the Soviet counterpart to the NASA Saturn V rocket. The first stage was even more powerfull than the first stage of its counterpart, the American Saturn 5 rocket.
After 4 failed launches the program was cancelled in may 1974, until the break-up of the USSR in the early 90ties the Russians always made it clear that there was no moon-race with the Americans, if there is a Moon-hoax than this was certainly it.
The Russians even tried to beat America in 1968 with a first flight to the moon like Apollo 8, but the Proton rocket was not yet man-rated and many difficulties (like life-support for example) with the Sojuz capsule delayed the project even further.
The Proton rocket is still in use today and has brought a substantial part of the ISS into orbit.
I made this model a while ago, and rendered it with cellshading settings in Bryce. The modelling is also done completely within Bryce.
Comments (6)
ronmolina
Nicely done!
peedy
Excellent. Thanks for the info. :-) Corrie
ljdean
Nice work. The N-1 looks very accurately modeled. I've never used Bryce for model building but it looks like it is a very capable tool for the job. The render looks kind of like a poster. You nailed it, if ever there was a lunar hoax, it was Soviet claims that they did not participate in a moon race. Some Critics of the Apollo program were duped by the Soviets into believing this rocket did not exist and there was no Soviet manned lunar program. Soyuz is definitely the workhorse of Soviet/Russian manned spaceflight. Almost half a century of service. Just for info purposes, the shuttle flew the bulk of ISS assembly missions. There were at least 25 shuttle assembly missions. The Proton-K took up the Zarya and Zvezda modules. Proton-M is scheduled to take three more Russian modules up. The Soyuz/Progress was used for three assembly missions and crew taxi which it still does to this day. The Energia/Buran (Soviet shuttle) grew out of the N-1 program failure but became victim of the Soviet Unions collapse.
RobertJ
The Energia was indeed axed in 1993, it did not help either that the project manager was one of the 1991 coup plotters.
karl.garnham1
Good Job I have also made this Rocket in Bryce it wasn't easy(you can see mine in my channel if you are interested). its a shame the Russians never made it to the moon they were very clever. Well Done 5 + Karl
MarcoCraine
A great reminder of an almost-forgotten beauty ;-). The 60s poster-styled look feels really authentic, as looks the model. Well done!