On July 3, 1969, an unthinkable event unfolded at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, as the Soviet N1 rocket, a colossal machine designed to send astronauts to the moon, exploded with unprecedented ...

The fourth and final unsuccessful N1 launch, in 1972, also resulted in a massive explosion, this time from a phenomenon known as pogo oscillation.

The K-219 was a Cold War era submarine from the Soviets that narrowly avoided a nuclear disaster due to a confluence of factors.

While the Saturn V made headlines shuttling American astronauts to the moon, the Soviet N1 rocket was made famous for a slightly different reason—when it blew up on takeoff it resulted in the ...

Yuri Gagarin and Sergei Korolev. The story of the Soviet N1 rocket and the wider lunar program in the USSR is still shrouded in mystery, especially compared to the Apollo program.

Starship did not do nearly as badly today. The Soviet N1 erupted just seconds after liftoff, collapsing back to the ground and destroying the launch pad.

Aznabayev was on a nuclear submarine that suffered an explosion in the Atlantic Ocean in 1986, five years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. The sub limped into Havana harbor.

The Starship's many engines are isolated from each other, preventing the risk of one engine failure causing failure of all as in the case of the Soviet Union's N1 rocket, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said ...

On July 3, 1969, the Soviet Zond L1S-2 was getting ready to head into space when disaster struck. For a few moments, the craft lifted into the night sky. Then, it exploded.