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How the Soviets hid their moon rocket's catastrophic failure from the world
On July 3rd, 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11's historic landing, the Soviet N-1 mega-booster erupted in one of history's most powerful non-nuclear explosions at Baikonur, killing their secret bid to ...
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The Soviet moon rocket that exploded weeks before Apollo 11
In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...
Humanity’s first successful lunar lander is missing. Sixty years ago the Soviet Luna 9 became the first human-made object to achieve a soft landing on the moon—or, for that matter, any celestial body.
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