The N1 was a Soviet super heavy-lift launch vehicle intended to carry cosmonauts to the Moon and beyond, the counterpart of the American Saturn V. Designed by OKB-1 from 1959, it was a five-stage kerosene and liquid oxygen rocket whose first stage clustered thirty NK-15 engines, with a computer called KORD shutting down engines to keep the rocket stable. All four launch attempts between 1969 and 1972 failed, and the second ended in one of the largest conventional explosions ever, wrecking its Baikonur pad. The death of chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966 hampered the work, and the programme was suspended in 1974 and cancelled in 1976 in favour of Energia.
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was a super heavy-lift launch vehicle of the Soviet space program
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the program was suspended in 1974 and canceled in 1976
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A five-stage kerolox-fuelled rocket
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