russkie rockets

Slow day except for trying to push a bunch of old apazine scans through.

Here are a couple of films of the old Soviet N1 moon rocket launches. Lving down to stereotypes of Soviet hardware, it does look like a flying boiler. Just check out all the boiler-like plates and rivets on the bottom end.
Film #1
Film #2
Just think, until the fall of the Soviet Union, nobody in the West even really knew what the N1 looked like. Sort of why the internet is kind of neat.

More here. Warning a lot of video files don't seem to work.