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The Soviet Rocket That Almost Changed History With the Biggest Explosion Ever Recorded
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 ...
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Russian Rocket Crashes Back Into Russia After 42 Years
The abandoned Soviet Vostok-2M Blok E rocket stage, weighing more than 3,000 pounds, "made an uncontrolled reentry over Novaya Zemlya at 1016 UTC Feb 20 after 42.7 years in orbit," tweeted ...
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A Russian Soyuz rocket with 3 astronauts blasts off to the International Space Station - Orlando Sentinel
MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station blasted off Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted at the last minute. The spacecraft ...
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Half-tonne piece of Soviet rocket may have crashed through atmosphere over south of England
A car-sized piece of Soviet rocket has crashed back through the atmosphere, after 53 years in orbit. Scientists haven't yet pinpointed its location but one organisation has predicted it had re ...