The LK-700 was a Soviet crewed lunar lander designed by Vladimir Chelomei's design bureau as a direct-landing alternative to Sergei Korolev's L3 lunar landing scheme. Launched by the very large UR-700 booster, it would have flown a small crew to the Moon and back in a single craft, with no docking in orbit and no cryogenic propellants. The craft was about 21 metres tall with a gross mass of 154,000 kilograms, and its design was derived from the Raketoplan family of modular crewed vehicles. Work continued at a low level from 1964, reaching mock-up and component test stage, and a revised design was put before an expert commission in November 1966. Korolev's N1-L3 programme was kept as the official plan. The LK-700 was never built for flight, and the project was finally suppressed in 1974 with the cancellation of the N1 and the lunar base projects.
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when the project was finally and definitively suppressed with the cancellation of the N1 and the lunar base projects
LK-700 (Wikipedia)
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LK-700 was a Soviet direct ascent lunar lander program proposed in 1964.
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