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The N1 Rocket was Russians answer to the Saturn-V. It was immense and massive, and all three blew up massively. Naturally the Russians hushed this up, no one ever knew about this for almost 20years... Now we know much about N1, we can se great pics of it on MASSIVE gantries and racks, and sitting ready to launch.. And there is one brief clip of it blowing up, but thats all.

Looking at YouTube and several other places, all I find is the same clip over and over and over. COnsidering not just one, but three of these beasts blew up, and each one was recorded by dozens of cameras, shouldn't there be Some record left of the explosions? Or were the Soviets simply that good at hidding everything?

I'm not an expert on the subject, but most of the stuff I've seen over the years has been pretty much the same clips over and over again. I assume it's just the Soviets being really good at covering evidence, since there seems to be very little out there.

According to a friend of mine whose a bit of a Rocket buff, he said that the Soviets basically seized all film immediately after each of the N1's explosions. Evidently the one brief clip that we see is from a small handheld camera that a worker didnt turn in. Of course this isjust 'his word' and im trying to verify it.

Very very tough, to find. Was working several years back on a feature project at Paramount wherein some loon gets hold of the 'last un-flown N1 in storage' in order to refurbish it and use it for a private moon-shot (presumably with some pretty extensive safety upgrades...)

Anyway, our research department couldn't find anything beyond the usual couple of clips one sees again and again. Seems like the Russians outdid themselves in terms of revising the history, on that project...

Thanks for the update, pretty amazing to know that the russians were so good in destroying the films that even movie makers can't get enough to put together footage of it. Ironically I recently found "New" footage



Again still not footage of the actually explosion, but its more footage of the N1 launching then I have ever seen before

Is there any chance that parts of the original footage still remains in some forgotten archive? It`s not the first time something thought to be lost in history is later found.

If it is it's probably buried under the Kermlin so deep you'd have a better chance of finding it by digging for it someplace in South America. Shame to, but what footage does exist of the N-1 going kaboom is some truly epic shit that puts most of NASA's "whoops" moments to shame.