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The Nedelin catastrophe of 1960, the deadliest spaceflight disaster hidden at Baikonur for decades
On October 24, 1960, a rushed R-16 missile test at Baikonur turned into a firestorm that killed over a hundred people, then vanished behind a wall of Soviet silence. This episode traces how the ...
Marshal Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin, commander in chief of the Soviet Union's Strategic Rocket Forces (b.1902-d.1960) Photo: rau-rostov.narod.ru 1960: The attempted launch of a prototype R-16 ICBM ends ...
In late October of 1960, about 150 families around the Soviet Union got letters notifying them that a loved one had died in a plane crash. It took thirty years for the public to be informed of what ...
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The crashes that nearly killed the space race
Two disasters almost ended humanity's journey to the stars. A plane crash nearly wiped out NASA's astronaut corps while the Nedelin catastrophe killed Soviet leadership. The days everything almost ...
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