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Originally Posted by TinFoilHat
I think you are confusing the second N-1 launch (lost thrust, fell back on the pad with massive damage but no casualties) with the Nedelin disaster (unexpected second-stage ignition while being worked on, killed nearly a hundred pad technicians).
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Slightly off topic but I had my nine year old son at the greatest place on earth last weekend, the Simthsonian NASM. There was a display of side by side models of the Saturn V and the N-1. After explaining the fate of the Soviet rocket he looked closely at it and said "no wonder it didn't work, look at all those engines, how did they get them to go off at the same time?"
Out of the mouths of babes....
BTW, has anybody seen the plans for the new Smithsonian Air and Space museum, the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, at Dulles airport? It looks AMAZING! It opens in December and we'll be there once the crowds go down (sometime next decade).
http://www.nasm.si.edu/nasm/ext/hazycenter.htm