inner echelons of soviet power. thousands of soviet workers and technicians were forbidden to speak about the new moon rocket. everything was kept strictly under wraps. we were under constant pressure from the k.g.b. . if we went on vacation and didn t tell anyone we were censored. yards. if you were traveling on the train and you went to the restaurant car to have dinner more just to sit and talk with a cagey minder would come up to you the instance maybe after half an hour sleep they tap you on the shoulder and tell you it was time you went back to your seat and this is. the new n one moon rocket was bigger than anything the soviets had built the from. the 1st
a long way off with and we were very excited intense. then you want to stay on your bull fight the rockets launched player was almost 3 times as long as the rocket itself and were a 300 metre long torch that shone a long way. to. 51 seconds then there was an explosion in the 1st stage. nevertheless the launch team still seems confident. ricky of the machine is a missile or exploders but no one saw it as a catastrophe yet everyone was optimistic that the rocket would fly the next time with you would be sold the 2nd flight was prepared with a lot of acuity. just 5 months before the american scheduled apollo 11 launch the soviets were relaxed and optimistic preparations for the 2nd attempt were already underway in june.
the cia knew what was going on this time and were able to warn the us president in advance about the jaybirds forthcoming launch in by canoe on. july 3rd 1969 countdown for the 2nd takeoff attempt. at. this time the 105 metre high colossus only managed to get a few meters off the ground before the engines shut down again the 1st stage had failed i am tire launch site was wrecked the only thing left working was the escape route . one was. there we watched it and then. we saw the after effects of but then burst into flames and here you can clearly see the
. the engines were still the big problem too weak to unreliable and too many 30 of them in the 1st stage alone. there was no one over we knew that using so many engines would make the whole thing unreliable for shearson or us uk but we had no other solution at the time. and mostly if we lack the necessary technical and experimental know how we simply did not have the necessary resources no resources. it s not just the moon rocket that was causing problems they hadn t even started thinking about the moon capsule. there weren t even any models of it it was only on paper. but carl you have remained optimistic. and walk the planet or didn t. really hide your lordship he was able to motivate his employees. he
until again the 1st stage exploded. the final end came in 1974 all documents relating to the moon program were destroyed on orders from on high. as silently and secretly as it came into the world the n one disappeared the remains of the gigantic rocket landed on the scrap heap of history some parts gave playgrounds a futuristic look other parts were converted into pics dies. only the insiders still know the stories connected with the scrap metal and many still firmly believe that the soviet union could have won the race to the moon if calling young hadn t died so early if bush had made more of an effort or if the kremlin hadn t been so has a tent. that s