How many was the N1 unsuccessfully tested ?
The L3 contained an Earth departure stage and a lunar landing assist stage , in addition to the single - cosmonaut LK Lander spacecraft , and a two - cosmonaut Soyuz 7K - LOK lunar orbital spacecraft.N1 - L3 was under-funded and under-tested , and started development in October 1965 , almost four years after the Saturn V. The project was badly derailed by the death of its chief designer Sergei Korolev in 1966 .