Rocket Development: N1, the Moon Rocket That Never Worked

2:3 portrait Soviet propaganda poster. The massive N1 rocket rises vertically through the poster, its distinctive conical four-stage silhouette dominating the frame. The rocket is pale gray with red CCCP markings at the base. A brilliant gold and red exhaust plume fills the bottom third. Upper right: a stylized full Moon in pale gold with a small flag silhouette planted on its surface. Background: deep midnight-blue sky with stylized stars and a thin orange terminator glow along the horizon. Top reads К ЛУНЕ! (To the Moon!).

К Луне!

To the Moon!

1969 - N1 Moon rocket

Soviet propaganda poster in the visual idiom of 1969, celebrating the N1 - the largest rocket the Soviet Union ever built (105.3 m tall, 17 m wide at the base), designed to land Soviet cosmonauts on the Moon. Available as a print at sovietspaceprogram.com.

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