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Rocket N-1

The super heavy Rocket N1 was created to launch Soviet cosmonauts to the Moon, Mars and Venus, and to place huge space stations into orbit. It was the Soviet counterpart of the American Saturn-V. The rocket N1 was a titanic feat of engineering consisting of 5 stages! It’s first stage involved a cluster of 30 high-powered rocket engines using kerosene and liquid oxygen as a fuel.