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The Soviet rocket that nearly reached the moon, inside the N1 explosion that helped America win the space race
Two weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 moon rocket, a mission that ended in one of the largest non nuclear explosions in history. Declassified records reveal ...
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The Soviet moon rocket that exploded weeks before Apollo 11
In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...
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