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The Soviet moon rocket that exploded like a nuclear blast just weeks before Apollo 11
Just two weeks before Apollo 11 landed on the Moon, the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic rocket failure that shook Baikonur and quietly ended its lunar ambitions. This video unpacks the N1 ...
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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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