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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 N1 moon rocket disaster, the Soviet Saturn V that exploded at Baikonur two weeks before Apollo 11

Two weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union launched its Saturn V rival, the N1, and watched it detonate in one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. Using declassified ...