KSP - The Failed Soviet Moon Mission

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[@MattLowne]

Enjoy! :-) Collaboration Station drops next Saturday at 5pm GMT

[@willtheconqueror6030]

Hey Matt!! Build 100 seat ssto plz

[@kirk_7632]

sounds like prokofievs dance of the knights

[@Jacob-bi1oq]

Matt Lowne, you should of used the error mod for this video

[@vlaamscherp]

What recorder do you use, Matt?

[@Jacob-bi1oq]

Also trajectories for the landing in Russia. Or whatever you call it in ksp. It's available on CKAN right now for the current version.

[@algorithm1193]

Here's a challenge. Get a Kerbal in low kerbin orbit. But only use 'Ant' engines. Good luck.

[@RegorForgot]

Thomas Harbauer I'll try

[@petti78]

What in the world is a low kerbin earth orbit? You can't have an orbit with two different planets in two different solar systems at the same time...

[@RegorForgot]

petti78 he means LKO

[@RegorForgot]

It is impossible.

[@raikkappa23]

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

[@sagiksp4979]

Probably one of the most kerbal spacecraft is the israeli Shavit launcher, not because of it's design, but because of what it did. Because of the earth's spin, it's more efficient to launch rockets going west to east, because that gives you a ~500m/s boost, so almost all spacecraft launch like that. Almost. You see, Israel can't do that. Back when the launcher was developed in the 80s, the countries to the east of Israel were very hostile (Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia...), and a big concern was that most spacecraft failures happen at launch. The mission directors did not want their then classified advanced space technology falling into enemy hands, so they did the only thing they could. *Launch the spacecraft the wrong way.* Instead of it launching over enemy territory, it launched over the Mediterranean, going east to west. That meant that not only could they not use earths kick, they had to fight against it. The launcher includes over 1000m/s more Dv than would be required if they were flying west to east, but they did it anyway, and the launcher still launches like that today. *Going the wrong way*

[@skinnyhedgehog]

I didn't know Israel had a space program! Thanks for the knowledge!

[@alphaadhito]

sagiksp i.imgur.com/tJK2heV.gif

[@skinnyhedgehog]

That is just majestic.

[@lsswappedcessna]

Because all those middle eastern countries are still assholes, probably. That, and tradition.

[@kingdominoiii3525]

They're not, what do you mean? That land was won in combat.

[@ignemuton5500]

"dammit, our rocket isn't good to reach the moon, how should we fix it?" "well we do have some extra 50 engines" "this is going to work.

[@Chocice75]

*Player forgot to uninstall the Entropy mod 30 seconds later, while in flight... *BOOM!*

[@nobpyxl5389]

*rocket explodes 30 secounds after take off because the rocket over heats

[@jackvalleli4460]

Well, it's important to consider that the Soviets didn't throw engines on just because. They were forced to use a large amount of small engines because programs that would have produced large engines to rival the F-1 used in the Saturn V were cancelled. These small engines, by the way, are the most efficient chemical rocket engines ever produced, and a quantity were bought by the US following the fall of the Iron Curtain.

[@TheWindigomonster]

Jack Valleli they also did it for redundancy - if one or two of the engines failed, they could still carry out their mission.

[@Tuning3434]

+TheWindigomonster According to probability theory, with more engines their is more chance of total system failure (e.g. more engines falling out than you have redundant) and that is even excluding the fact of engines failing in the explosive kind of way. Another interesting part of Sovjet rocket design is their tendency to use multiple nozzle's and combustion chambers on a single engine turbopump package.

[@user-po6hn9id1t]

also they launched from Baikonour witch, isn't any near to the equator

[@MattLowne]

Although the rocket as a whole was unreliable, the NK-33 and NK-43 engines are considered rugged and reliable when used as a standalone unit, hence why they were able to flog a good chunk of them following the termination of the program

[@user-po6hn9id1t]

Matt Lowne they have any plans for those HK engines?

[@LeviJohansen]

SpaceX is building a rocket with 42 engines, hope it doesn't meet the same fate

[@jupitergd9580]

Levi Johansen is it Interplanetary Transport System?

[@LeviJohansen]

Yigit GD yes.

[@pandorasangel2747]

Crap! I live near Cap fuck does this mean Im going to die?

[@lightbenderga2017]

HAHA they trashed the ITS!

[@benjaminbee4788]

Light Bender no they didn't, they renamed it the BFR, but what they are trying to do with BFR is the exact same as the ITS

[@ravenclawtom]

soviet union was playing KSP IRL back in the 50s-70s

[@joaqweri5661]

In Soviet Russia, you do not land on mun, mun lands on YOU.

[@fedor4655]

Jojo Laffs In sovjet russia, engines fire YOU

[@admiralpawz4699]

Jojo Laffs in Soviet Russia,Capsule boards YOU

[@RegorForgot]

Jojo Laffs In Soviet Russia, space explores you

[@lockhack]

Muhammed, this reminds me of, "When you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you."

[@blueberry1c2]

That happens in Hyrule, too, interestingly.

[@fedor4655]

One of the other reasons Block A had so many engines, was the fact that if 1 or 2 failed, you still had a bunch left. With the Saturn V, it would be a bigger failure. It actually happened at the Apollo 13 launch, one engine failed but they could make it into orbit. Sadly the rest of the trip didn't go as planned as well.

[@justin-3985]

yeah, but if one had a failure at the N1 the engine on the otherside shuted down to. This happen at all launches and if they were shuted down some getted and then shuted other engines down until there weren't enough engines and it had to burst

[@wierdalien1]

Günther Hinnen which is exactly what happened. because the russian programming was sensitive

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

That was the theory, yes, but as pointed out, late 1960s Soviet flight-capable automation wasn't really up to the challenge of balancing across 30 engines. A failure in one would cause all the engines to shut down.

[@justin-3985]

The last flight of the N1 faild at the seperation of the first stage. There where a failure at engine number 4 at teh second stage. They don't know what happend an in this reason they bursted the rocket. But the first stage with the 30 engines worked perfectly.

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

I'd be fascinated to know if any of the engines on the first stage on that flight. If not, then KORD (the flight control system) would not have had anything to do, and would not have shut the engines down. However, the problem of engine reliability remains. One successful flight out of three isn't a good start for a crewed system.

[@Nathaniel-qo5nd]

"In Soviet Russia, you do not go into space. Space goes into you" - Boris

[@maksymcazymir1727]

**lenny face**

[@robbie356]

Are you talking about Boris that goose from Balto?

[@tealri8267]

life of boris.avi

[@toomanyblocks8448]

@@robbie356 no, the youtuber

[@MarcusHouse]

A most informative episode Mr Lowne! I havent done a lot or reading up on the Soviet vessels, so it was interesting to see a successful version of the mission. Nice one buddy! ... One week till Colaboration Station drops 😀

[@zachenright]

Marcus House I guess I won't be sleeping for one week then....

[@aviet8520]

:O Collab with 2 KSP nerds?! My dream has come true!

[@carlfildes2946]

hi

[@federativemapperholiday1580]

It's Marcus House!

[@finz9000]

Marcus House

[@connordalton4553]

As I watched this, I suddenly realized that the footage of the lander at around 9:00 was from the movie Apollo 18. I swear, that is probably the only movie to ever feature this lander.

[@nikgilic6601]

connor dalton fuckin scary movie

[@deltuhvee]

I was looking for that comment :), i was like 11 when i saw that and I stopped watching around the part where the dude has to rip the alien out of his friends guts.

[@skinnyhedgehog]

соме, кегвал сомгадез! тодау, ше эо то зрасе!

[@lsswappedcessna]

I like how you used Cyrillic characters to spell "Come, Kerbal comrades! Today, we go to Space!"

[@skinnyhedgehog]

Thanks!

[@khandmo]

Pretty obvious, actually

[@banepo4]

some, kegval somgadez! today, she eo to zrase!

[@skinnyhedgehog]

Close enough.

[@justanotherintrovert1012]

Actually the N1 rocket with an LOK craft on it used an extraction like maneuver similar to that of the Apollo missions, the LOK craft would be stored in an adapter from block V to the LOK service module, fairing, and escape tower, and the LOK capsule did indeed have solar panels along with fuel cells that would activate whenever the LK lander was not docked to it, and finally, the LOK craft broke into 3 pieces before re-entry, being the service module, capsule, and docking module, the capsule was the only part of the rocket to make it back to earth in one piece, and there were specialized hatches between the service module and docking module (the 2 pressurized parts of the LOK craft) to make this detachment possible, and the N1 was only partially intended to go to the moon, it was designed to go to mars or venus (and recent studies show that if an N1 rocket was assembled today with a lower chance of failure, that it would have enough Delta V to enter orbit around Mars (not venus, as the soviets forgot to calculate the gravity of the sun pulling them in past venus) land and return, anyways, hope this helps!

[@BradleyWhistance]

this is the possibly the most entertaining ksp video I've seen to date. thanks Matt =)

[@sfs_lead]

turbo puped better

[@mikhailiagacesa3406]

Sweet! I've always wanted to see this. Had to wait 37 years, but finally saw a Soviet flag planted on the moon by a Russian.

[@delamovies]

Mikhailia Gacesa lol

[@anonb4632]

Or a Kazakh or a Ukrainian or a Lithuanian or a Georgian or a Chechen or an Armenian etc etc

[@-wenschow907]

I'm hearing quite low frequenzy base around 12:30 and 13:00, is that ambient noise or music in the background? two bottles on my desk that were touching each other went nuts vibrating, ARE YOU TRYING TO SUBLIMINALLY MANIUPULATE US TO SUBSCRIBE?!

[@wierdalien1]

David Cheidners too late

[@MattLowne]

it's just one of the music that plays in KSP when you're in space :P

[@slabgizor1176]

Well did you subscribe?

[@snowfall2515]

From Russia With Love-Huma Huma

[@wilboersma9441]

That footage of the Soviet (LK) lander at 9:00 is from the movie Apollo 18, which is a really cheesy movie about secret military moon missions and rock-aliens on the moon, however it has a Russian moon landing and it's really cool to see the LK lander, given some fair justice.

[@comraderedcomando]

Ah the classic Russian motto of "What the use of brute for isn't working? Add more Force! Boom! Problem solved!

[@rickharper4533]

Joshua Pack its the kerbal motto, get it right nub

[@maxwellmondo4857]

The 13th episode was by far my favorite of the collab station series. The way the music slowly starts up is hilarious.

[@georgerussell2947]

the crew modual and the lunar modual would not dock!!! they got very close and then the kosmonaunt would do an EVA!

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Mr G 1324 It's rather hard to do that in KSP, from my experience.

[@wierdalien1]

Velociraptors of Skyrim i do it for rescue missions its ok you just need to make sure ladders are obvious

[@VelociraptorsOfSkyrim]

Alistair Shaw True.

[@MattLowne]

I read so many conflicting articles and reports regarding whether or not the lander would re-dock I ended up just going with 1 and hoping it was correct lol, do you have any good sources?

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

My understanding is that the circular grid on top of the Soviet lander was a target for a harpoon-like device on the top of the Soyuz. The vessels would run into one another and engage, locking the two together until the harpoon was ejected. So the vessels would dock in the sense they were locked together, but crew could not be transferred through the dock. However, it would make it much easier to EVA from the lander to the Soyuz.

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

"The most Kerbal rocket... ever made." Yup, I LOLed.

[@Pedro1745]

-Launch a submarine to Laythe OCEAN (obviously) -Launch a Brahmos missile from it. and thats it. If you read this, Thank you

[@rickharper4533]

Pedro Núñez Moraga he’s done this a long long time ago...

[@evertaj8332]

I love the fact that you actually played the reversed part of the russians in the horror film: Apollo 18.

[@marshalondro9692]

Hello comrade, I was sent here by our glorious leader Stalin, i’m supposed to tell you that you’re rockets looks good and our supreme leader APPROVES YOU, be proud!!!!!!!!!

[@lizard474]

when you recreate soviet things that failed irl and made them work in ksp the series turns to "making fun of the soviets"

[@naomiwolf8944]

Engines dont fail in ksp

[@CardZed]

@@naomiwolf8944 there is no kraken in real life

[@alphaadhito]

FYI: The NK-33 on the N-1 Soviet moon rocket never successfuly launch to orbit, at least until some 40 years later on April 2013, when it launched the Antares rocket from US that modified by Aerojet one of the cold war space race rival of the Kuznetsov, the designer of the NK-33. A bit ironic indeed

[@hamidbei2859]

Alpha Adhito 14:17 listen carefully

[@MrBathLegit]

I found this very creative how you used stock parts. Over all I thought this recreation was very cute. Great job

[@alterranlongbow5067]

"What, you expected loot crate?"

[@trollshark6260]

I enjoy learning about space stuff, but I'm too lazy to read so this is great! Thumbs up, Matt!

[@Spessforce]

Were there so many spherical shapes in the design because a sphere is excellent at holding pressure and being under stress?

[@kylehughes1741]

Nickvr628 yes

[@KoteYika]

Как, в видео про космический симулятор в котором рассказывается неудачная история Советской Лунной программы, собрало столько диванных политиков в комментариях?! Забавно, наверное я единственный русскоговорящий зритель этого канала ( ° ʖ °)

[@artembubnov275]

Саша Морозов нет

[@huntvice]

ноуп

[@acrill5989]

Пффф, нет.

[@alexanderimamiev4266]

Ага ага

[@SquierStrat100]

лол

[@jaykay4137]

Rocket is too powerful for the payload we want to send? More engines should fix that!

[@Shipwright1918]

Congratulations, Comrade! Not a bad recreation of the Soviet N1 rocket and the LK lander.

[@Demongornot]

Actually both because of logistic (the rocket was not made near the launchpad unlike Saturn V and its VAB) and to keep it secret, the rocket was literally deconstructed and rebuild on the launch site, most engine were not tested prior to launch and never all of them were tested at once because of lack of big enough infrastructure, it would had reveal the issue of plumbing vibration if it was done. The rocket was literally tested on a trial and error basis and the firsts were literally expected to fail. Also the onboard software that controlled the engines was one of the biggest flow of the rocket and the thing that caused the most amount of problems, after the all 4 failed launch basically all known issue were fixed and the next rocket would have probably work without problems (or catastrophic failures at least). Just after the fourth attempt, the first man was already on the Moon by the USA. The thing is that this is the issue here, not only the Russians never publicly entered in the moon race, but also, the SPACE race was over after the USA landed on the Moon while they literally failed at every first anything before that, URSS was winning, if the USA were not bitchy and did not say that the race was not over until they stop loosing, the space race would have continue, not only to the moon, but also to others planets. The URSS was ready to launch a mission to the Moon, which is why two others rockets were ready to continue the tests, but since the USA claimed that they win the space race by actually not loosing for the first time, and since a successful launch of the N1 would have mean to continue toward manned moon mission, the URSS probably realised that it was not worth it to spend more money trying to race an unfair adversary who self proclaim himself winner of the space race, while the rest of the solar system is still, 47 years latter, virgin from direct human presence and actually the Soviets were the first to land on the moon, unmanned but still the first, same for Venus and Mars, because you can be sure that if the Soviets were the first on the Moon, USA would have never accept that they won and simply push the finish line to another objective until they could do it first. So yeah, in this video you were trashing the N1 as a total failure that was almost stupid and impossible to made properly work while it was not the case at all, the two next would have probably been really successful and failure was expected, not just as the state of rocket science of those old days but literally as a lot of unknown were still awaiting to be found which is not representative of the final expected rocket reliability. Anyway nice video.

[@Greater98er]

Demongornot Their are stories of US spy satellites seeing a gigantic rocket one orbit and a giant charred spot the next orbit.

[@Demongornot]

Which is actually funny for the observer side of view !

[@TheLargeHardonCollider]

+Greater98er I've even heard that amateur radio operators in mexico were trying to listen in on Sputnik, heard people talking, screaming, like they sent men up before they knew how to get them back down.

[@Demongornot]

The "lost astronauts" theory, might be true, but just be careful with what you read on the internet, so much fakes things who look and sound really realistic are everywhere on the internet.

[@romansemenko6231]

Hi Matt! Great video, thanks for this recreation of ambitious but unsuccessful program. Special thanks for accurate staging, a lot of youtube videos doesn't bother to do it. I just notice one tiny inaccuracy. The LOK actually was supposed to drop the living compartment together with lunar module on the moon orbit. Otherwise the spacecraft didn't have enough fuel for moon escape burn due to N1 underperformance. And AFAIK docking node of LOK was one-off and didn't have a undocking mechanism anyway.

[@spencerwhite3400]

These people sucked at asparagus staging

[@Emperor_Xander]

I suppose I sort of recreated the mission on accident. With the mods I have I had to build a big rocket which looked like an Apollo or Soyuz styled vehicle. I know this video is a bit old but it's still good and inspiring.

[@humancyborgrelations3737]

>tfw you know Elon Musk is designing a rocket with 42 engines.

[@Geobiery]

Wow I'm really impressed by this video. Please do more of this series! Really interesting stuff.

[@ChendoSmit]

Dear Matt, you mention here that you think 30 engines in the first stage alone is ludicrous. If that seems ludicrous, I'd like to hear your opinion on the SpaceX ITS motor count of 42 Raptor motors?

[@JohnWilliamNowak]

Responding correctly to an engine failure in flight is a challenge. KORD, the 1970s Soviet flight control system on the N1 probably wasn't up to it. Nowadays I suspect we could do better.

[@Yorickje1234]

The opinion shall be in the likes of "do it!" (Musk's own words). Let us see how ITS evolves beyond the drawing table first.

[@fiveoneecho]

KORD was never meant to control that setup of engines on the N1. N1 failed because of bad programming. Falcon Heavy did a successful static fire recently with its 27 engines, which I think means SpaceX have developed a much better system. Plus SpaceX uses engine vectoring instead of differential thrust. So, hopefully no flameout.

[@maximator7966]

"What, you expected Lootcrate?" You got me Matt :D

[@stealthpelt1]

If I remember correctly Apollo 13 had an engine failure on stage one, so even the "simple" design had issues.

[@evanwheeler634]

Stealthpelt yeah but that's not comparable to having every single moon landing attempt thwarted due to bad design.

[@bman7653]

The engine shutdown was on the S-II stage, not the S-IC. The inboard J-2 engine was shutdown by the computer because of pogo oscillations. In general, the oscillations seemed to be caused by the engines being too powerful for the structure of the rocket, not the engine outright failing.

[@coolpigs9937]

It was the second stage not the first

[@Scteam2000]

The most Kerbal rocket, in my opinion, is most of SpaceX's rockets. "More thrust, you say? More engines, we reply!"

[@AnimeGuyTokyo]

Should I buy CS:GO or this? Or not buy the switch and buy both?

[@ville-matiasparkkonen3177]

Anime Guy not cs its salty and annoying many of my "ex" friends I lost because of cs

[@fedor4655]

Anime Guy Don't buy the switch. It is a hype, but nothing more. It is gonna die over time, I predict it.

[@bishop6402]

Don't buy switch. Don't buy CS:GO, buy this.

[@Chocice75]

Get Sonic Mania or KSP.

[@fiveoneecho]

Not CS. If u want pvp, get something like one of the battlefields. Definitely get KSP.

[@danielsvedbjork760]

Love these kinds of videos. I loved the Ekranoplan one when you made it and it's great to see you continuing this! More!

[@Dewon2301]

I NEED THIS MUSIC AT THE BEGINING WHAT IS IT

[@jester6819]

From Russia with Love

[@jester6819]

By Huma

[@flynnmiller7687]

@@jester6819 you are a true god

[@rutkowskithewise68]

That small screening of two astronauts seeing an ok lander is from Apollo 18 a horror movie with extreme realism with a website repeating 16 hours of the movie

[@vsauce4992]

This mission is to the Mun not the moon, the title is Clickbait #mattlownesux

[@RebeccaMendozaKW]

Apollo 18 was great thanks for reminding me of it

[@user-xy3qp5jm4y]

Matt,what is the music played at 14:00 ? I need to know so badly!

[@ville-matiasparkkonen3177]

吳佳政 me too

[@justin-3985]

me too

[@justin-3985]

From Russia With Love Huma

[@fureversalty]

Thank u! also derpfestor. look it up.

[@justin-3985]

There is an app called shazam that recognises tracks. It works pretty well.

[@markwiygul6356]

Very Interesting, From the things I've read, they only launched the N1 a few times, which was a smaller portion of the total "planned test launches" but they got so far behind (All USA lunar missions completed successfully) that they decided to cancel because their moon missions were abbreviated versions of what we've already done, and even if they were 100% successful, it would be judged too little, and too late. But, the N1 rocket used state of the art engines, in use in the Atlas today, as I understand it.

[@thefancyllama4657]

You should play KSP on Xbox 1! (It's brutal) like this so he can see this.

[@KevinVandyTech]

no

[@thefancyllama4657]

yes

[@MattLowne]

no

[@harrysnell8971]

no

[@thefancyllama4657]

Matt Lowne why not? ;(

[@blueberry1c2]

Another big factor in its failure is the launch computer suddenly and inexplicably shutting down all engines.

[@isaacmayes3653]

apollo soyuz?

[@dimitrivladivikovic2518]

Isaac Mayes the first American/ Soviet team mission

[@platygetzkillz2144]

It's weird watching him dock without using the lowne lazy method

[@emth7084]

i apollo-gise for that oh you funny!

[@QUADEeee]

I Koro-gize for that Korolev Won!

[@MrMhmToasty]

I think the N1 had a magnificent design. It actually traded mission success chance for total power. What that means is *theoretically* if one engine fails, all the other ones can have their thrust changed to keep the rocket flying normally and only have a ~1/30 loss in thrust. I heard that part of the problem there was that they didn't have the computational power to control that number of engines. I still believe the real problem was that Sergei Korolev, head Soviet Rocket Engineer and genius, died due to medical complications. Had he been alive during the 60's the Soviets would have made it to the moon far before we did. Edit: I would also recommend reading about the Buran and compare it to the shuttle. Soviet designs were honestly very astonishing. They don't get nearly as much credit as they deserve.

[@nitromeano]

Why did you Apollogize at 11:29 ? It was a soviet mission!

[@RegorForgot]

Has anyone noticed how Kerbal Space Center and Kennedy Space Center have the same initials?

[@Gaztoof]

FIRST

[@kingcat6084]

zDarKLordZ so?

[@MD-et3hf]

zDarKLordZ nope

[@beybladeguru101]

Late comment, but if you didn't notice the weird naming for the stages (A, B, V, G), here's a simple explanation: In the Russian language, the order of the letters in the alphabet goes as such: А, Б, В, Г Which are A, B, B, and G (sounding) when compared to English, or the ABC's. Thusly: Stage A, B, C, and D in English.

[@sheepmasterrace]

The reason why the N1 has so many engines was because 1st of all, at the time, the soviets didn't have the industrial capacity compared to the U.S.A. The U.S. Could afford to make huge rocket engines. Second of all, the sole designer of the N1, Sergi Korolev, had a very strong grudge against the only man who could produce large engines, Valentin Glushko. In the 30s, Glushko had blamed Korolev for a mistake Glushko had made. As a result, Korolev spent many years in a Siberian labor camp, giving him lifelong heart conditions untill his death, around the time when the N1 first launched. Third of all, Glushko wanted to use hyperbgolic fuel, which was more efficient than other fuels, but was extremely poisonous. Hyperbolic fuel could dissolve flesh, and if breathed in, fill the lungs with fluid. As the N1 was a manned rocket, Korolev strongly disagreed with Glushko. Therefor, Glushko did not produce large engines for Korolev. The only other man who could produce engines for Korolev was a jet engine designer, who had the very efficient experimental NK-15 engine. The problem was that the NK-15 was very small, so Korolev had to use 30 of them. However, It was also extremely difficult to provide fuel for the NK-15. The main reason why the N1 failed was because the NK-15 engines kept failing and shutting down.The NK-15 later developed into the NK-33 and NK-43, which today powers the K-1 rocket, Antares, and the Soyuz-2-1v rockets.

[@ceegnz]

I didn't even know there WAS a Soviet Moon Mission programme ! Nice video Matt, thanks :)

[@JBieberaddict]

ceegnz It was a race against the US after all.

[@Electrolux219]

You know it’s a good rocket when you can’t say if the rocket works but are fairly certain of the escape system

[@armedbiotoast2988]

You keep saying it’s hard to mimic a sphere, but you did pretty well in the Minmus hotel video!

[@maximum988]

a bigger problem with the n1 was that the engines could only be fired once, so they couldn't test them before launch. Also, I believe that the N1's computer contributed to a couple of the failures. Rocket stages with many engines can be reliable. Just look at the Falcon 9. Neither of its two RUDs were caused by the engines. I addition, on one of its early missions (CRS-1 I think), a falcon 9 had an engine failure but didn't crash or explode.

[@petersmythe6462]

Well, it's not just reliability. Having multiple engines can cause serious oscillations of pressure in the plumbing between them. This was an issue on the Saturn V and that had five engines. Anyway, I personally have made KSP rockets with over 100 engines in a stage, but again, that's KSP.

[@captainyossarian388]

"I apologize for that...but I also, don't." Love it. Great vid.

[@brianriley5108]

There's a great docudrama miniseries on Netflix about this, Space Race. Produced by the BBC in 2005, goes through the post WW2 era of US and Soviet space programs. I also recommend Cosmodrome (Netflix), as it goes through the history of Soviet rocket engine development.

[@QUADEeee]

The NK-33 Was and still is one of the best engine in the world. The RD-180 was basically two NK-33s strapped together, thus almost (account for extra weight) doubling the performance. That's a great topic for cosmodrome.

[@ReynardFuchsmann]

This is crazy, the soviets used the same mun lander style as me, using last stage to low it down near the surface then use the main landing engines. Thats awesome

[@TheRealSupernoah47]

Thank you for not using the stupid Russian font people usually do! The font you used looks inspired by Russian lettering, but the font that I’ve learned to despise uses the actual letters from the Cyrillic alphabet.

[@petersmythe6462]

"Rather than planning things economically." *Stares in Soviet.*

[@bikusad9226]

Interestingly enough, the N1 had the greatest engines ever built. During glasnost, the Americans didn't believe the thrust/Isp numbers they were hearing because they were so insanely good, and the Atlas and Antares rockets both use engines derived from the N1's incredible original design.

[@bikusad9226]

Only the Merlin 1D (SpaceX) has higher TWR (among surface engines) and the NK33 has superior Isp.

[@Chonk_Wrap_Printing]

Love when apollo 18 played in the corner

[@Tribersman]

Lot and lot of thrusters is a perfectly valid strategy as long as the engine don't fail explosively. They can also stay as light as a few powerful engine. Using dozen of engin also make the stage more reliable since you can overcome an engine failure by pushing the other slightly more. Whereas if a SLS lost one of its engine the entire rocket is doomed. The SpaceX design for example rely on 9 main thrusters, and I don't need to tell you about the crazy Mars-Reusable-Rocket. Aside, the Russian engine are "unbelievably" efficient, I hard that when the American cooperated with the Soyuz they got to look at their engine Isp and simply couldn't believe it.

[@samvodopianov9399]

Another aspect you forgot to mention is that the Soviets did manage to achieve a lot with thier program, and even nowdays the only rockets still used to carry men (For now, since a few years ago, this may change) is the Soyuz Capsule that is launched by an imporved version of the R1 rocket.

[@BungLer]

The coincidence to this video is I just accidentally killed Jeb, Bill and Bob on my Soviet themed sandbox save during a Mun mission that went awry. This video appeared in my suggestions not long after.

[@alexsiemers7898]

No Lootcrate shenanigans in this video, I guess.

[@PTNLemay]

The song at the beginning is either "Dance of the Knights" or "Montagues And Capulets" by Prokofiev.

[@benjaminaasen8922]

This is your best video matt!!!! Although all of your videoes are really good this and the apollo mission is the best

[@benmatt2535]

Ey good video comrade! The motherland will be proud of you!

[@AnonymousFreakYT]

The last launch of the N-1 was *ALMOST* successful. The first stage failed mere seconds before the second stage was due to light. They knew the first stage was going to fail before it did. If the controllers had overrode the system, they could have separated a little early and lit the second stage and let it run a little longer than expected, and (assuming no problems with the rest of the stages,) could have had a successful launch.

[@jaggerjdm9787]

Title: "Soviet Moon Mission" KZbin: HERE HAVE AN APOLLO SPACE PROGRAM ARTICLE

[@G1vr1x]

11:30 You have nothing to apologize for, it's no apollo geezer mission !

[@physical_insanity]

>The Saturn V engines consisted of 6 million components Jesus, how did they manage to land on the moon with all that lag?

[@meowcula]

There's mods floating about with quite excellent soyuz and salyut flyable models, I tried them recently, fun stuff!

[@jirisykora8035]

Nice one Matt! Original have to say, and your commented videos are cooooool :)

[@DustySquitoNM]

What an interesting craft! Nice history lesson to go along with it too.

[@lsswappedcessna]

If Kerbals can accomplish more in five minutes than NASA has in 48 years, they can definitely accomplish more than the CCCP has ever done. (Russia is different, now. They are who mostly gets people up to the ISS and back.)

[@tritanicwolf518]

Hello scene from Apollo 18 the space horror movie.

[@rayceeya8659]

Wouldn't have been a proper Soviet mission to the moon unless that made a search for any escaped Nazies. You can never be sure...

[@aWildLupi]

The death of sergei korolev was a major blow to the N1 program. Without its visionary designer, it sorta just died. Didn't help we beat them to the moon

[@QUADEeee]

Sergei Was a respectable man. If he had lived, russia would've CERTAINLY beat america to the mun-- Oh wait, That's another universe.. NOT UNACCEPTABLE

[@mr.jar__]

I love the historical (kind of) series thing though there was just 2 videos. please do more that would be great!

[@theNeorax]

History with Matt. Great Job mate!

[@Warriorking.1963]

Very good video. Interestingly the Soviet docking system intended for their Lunar shot was only capable of being used once. The act of docking would smash the mechanism so severely it was simply impossible to pull off a second one. Your video really is very good, and I've no doubt you know way more on this than I do, but I always thought the fairings around the cargo bay holding the lander was to stay in place until lunar orbit had been achieved? I'm wrong in this I guess..?

[@dom_the3166]

2:25 "30 engines in just one stage is absolutely insane" falcon heavy: *laughs in 27 engines*

[@thefancyllama4657]

Soviets: We have a rocket with 30 engines! Elon Musk: Hold my beer

[@Azarath304]

now train a kerbal to defeat Sylvester Stallone in Rocky 4 and you will be a true hero for mother Russia during the cold war.

[@liskers]

"Russia lands!" "What, you expected lootcrate?" Gawd, I love flags.