As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...
The rumble you will hear today, Monday, January 5 2026 is the sound of rocket engine hotfire testing. Hotfire testing — a ...
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The Soviet launch pad disaster of 1960, how the R-16 rocket explosion killed dozens and was hidden for decades
In October 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test at Baikonur ended in a massive explosion that killed over a hundred people and was erased from public record. Decades later, declassified files and ...
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The Soviet rocket explosion that nearly changed Apollo 11, inside the N1 moon booster disaster at Baikonur
In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...
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