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The Soviet moon rocket that exploded like a nuclear blast, inside the N-1 disaster two weeks before Apollo 11

Two weeks before Apollo 11, the USSR’s N-1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur in a blast witnesses compared to the end of the world. Using declassified intelligence and the fractured Soviet timeline, ...
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The N1 explosion at Baikonur, July 3, 1969, the Soviet moon rocket that detonated weeks before Apollo 11

Weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union tried to save its lunar ambitions with the N1, a super heavy rocket meant to rival Saturn V, and watched it collapse into a massive non-nuclear blast at ...