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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 ...
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The Soviet rocket explosion that nearly changed Apollo 11, inside the N1 moon booster disaster at Baikonur

In July 1969, the Soviet N1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur just days before Apollo 11, exposing how close, and how fragile, the Moon Race really was. Then an even darker launchpad catastrophe in ...