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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 at Baikonur, and how close the moon race really was
In July 1969, the Soviet Union launched its giant N-1 booster in a last-ditch push to reach the Moon, and watched it collapse into one of the most powerful non-nuclear explosions in history. Using ...
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