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Space Rocket History #176 – The First Test Flight of the Soviet N1

Category: Science & Medicine
Duration: 00:28:46
Publish Date: 2020-09-12 15:49:36
Description:

Finally, on the morning of February 21, all the population of the N1 assembly area and a residential area, situated just south of the launch pad, was ordered to evacuate. The giant service structure then rolled away leaving the dark-gray rocket with a white payload fairing towering under sunny skies. The weather was extremely cold, with temperatures falling to minus 44 C degrees, and stormy winds.  In the fortified firing control room, the Commander of the 6th Directorate, took the firing command position at the main periscope…

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