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- From: dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com (Dennis Newkirk)
- Subject: Re: N-1 giant Moon rocket photo in *AvLeak*
- Organization: Motorola
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 17:39:56 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov10.135703.1@fnalf.fnal.gov> higgins@fnalf.fnal.gov (Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey) writes:
- >
- >The new 9 November issue of *Aviation Week* just hit my mailbox. On
- >page 65 is a nice photograph of the Soviet N-1 rocket on its pad with
- >service tower. The N-1 was the "Soviet Saturn V," the BIG rocket
- >whose failure doomed their manned lunar landing program.
- >
- >The N-1 has always been cloaked in secrecy, and this is only the
- >second photo of it that's been published in the West.
- > | | Bill Higgins Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
-
- That's not true. At the least, photos of the N-1 published in the west
- probably number in the dozen. Spaceflight magazine had several detailed
- photos of the N-1 Block A (first stage) and excerpts of film of one launch
- in an issue a few months ago.
-
- Aerospace Ambassadors group has published a few photos in their Russian
- made books, but these have mostly been seen in other sources first.
-
- Also, a book published a few months ago in France contains some
- photos of the N-1 different from any I have seen in this country,
- including an aerial photo of 2 N-1's on both launch pads. This book also
- contains information on other once secret projects similar to the
- Russian "Unknown Spacecraft" booklet privately published earlier this year
- or last year and translated by the good folks at FBIS-JPRS.
-
- Dennis Newkirk (dennisn@ecs.comm.mot.com)
- Motorola, Land Mobile Products Sector
- Schaumburg, IL
-