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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, the N1 disaster that nearly changed the space race
In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union lost its giant N1 moon rocket in one of the most powerful non nuclear explosions in history. Kept secret for decades, the disaster revealed ...
Less than a week after a Russian Block DM upper stage on a Proton K rocket failed, stranding Astra 1K--the world's largest satcom--in a useless orbit, Lockheed Martin shipped the Telesat Canada Nimiq ...
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