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The Soviet astronauts who never came back
During the height of the Space Race, rumors spread that Soviet cosmonauts had died in secret missions before Yuri Gagarin’s historic flight. Italian radio enthusiasts claimed to have intercepted ...
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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 ...
CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A reactor failure on a K-19 nuclear sub in 1961 ended up killing several crew members due to radiation poisoning. It was a horrifying episode that ...
Introduction -- Fire onboard: Apollo 1 -- Death in a fireball: Soyuz 1 -- Nerves like wire rope: Gemini 6A -- Emergency landing in the Pacific: Gemini 8 -- Death at supersonic speed: X-15 -- Odyssey ...
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