N1-L3 Soviet Manned Lunar Landing - An Orbiter Film by Timm Humphreys

In the 1960’s, the massive N1 rocket booster was the Soviet Union’s answer to America’s Saturn 5. Plans were made for both circumlunar missions as well as lunar landing missions, but with the United States about to begin the Apollo missions, it was decided to focus on the lunar landing, in hopes of possibly beating the Americans to the moon. It wasn’t to be of course. Between February 21, 1969 and November 23, 1972, four test flights of the N1 booster took place, all of them ending in catastrophic failures