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The Soviet moon rocket that exploded like the end of the world, N1’s 1969 Baikonur disaster
In July 1969, as Apollo 11 closed in on the Moon, the Soviet N1 moon rocket collapsed back onto its launch pad and unleashed one of history’s most powerful non-nuclear explosions. From declassified ...
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The Soviet moon rocket explosion so powerful it looked nuclear, N1’s hidden 1969 catastrophe
In 1969, the Soviet Union’s Saturn V rival exploded at Baikonur in a blast witnesses compared to the end of the world, just days before Apollo 11. But it was only one chapter in a darker story, ...
ATLANTIC, Va. -- Crews searched for scorched wreckage along the Virginia coast Wednesday in hopes of figuring out why an unmanned commercial rocket exploded in a blow to NASA's strategy of using ...
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