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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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Zvezda, the USSR’s secret moon base plan and the N1 rocket failures that killed it
After Sputnik, Soviet designers quietly explored Zvezda, a self sufficient lunar settlement made of partially buried modules meant to survive radiation and impacts. But when the N1 moon rocket ...
You may have the impression that the Soviet Union's space program was something of a joke. You know, because they failed spectacularly and at great personal expense to put a human being on the Moon ...
"I believe that [Apollo program director George Low] certainly was concerned, and rightly so, that we could have orbited the moon ahead of the Americans. We had everything for it. That is why he ...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Wednesday claimed higher payload capacity for Starship than previously known. The CEO was noting the distinguishing factors between the Starship and Soviet Union’s N1 rocket ...
The Starship‘s many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union’s N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on ...
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