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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 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, ...
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