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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 ...
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The night the Soviet moon rocket exploded, inside the N1 disaster that shook the space race
In July 1969, just days before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union’s N1 moon rocket lifted off with 30 engines firing at once, then detonated in a blast of near nuclear scale. Declassified accounts reveal how ...
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