Introduction -- Fire onboard: Apollo 1 -- Death in a fireball: Soyuz 1 -- Nerves like wire rope: Gemini 6A -- Emergency landing in the Pacific: Gemini 8 -- Death at supersonic speed: X-15 -- Odyssey ...
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The Gemini 9 T-38 tragedy and the hidden Soviet pad inferno, two disasters that shaped the space race
A Gemini crew’s fatal T 38 crash narrowly missed wiping out Project Gemini, while a catastrophic Soviet launch pad accident in 1960 was hidden behind a false story for decades. Together, these moments ...
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Explosions that shook the Soviet space dream
Two disasters defined Soviet space tragedy. The N1 rocket created history's largest non-nuclear explosion while the Nedelin catastrophe killed the program's top leadership. The blasts that ended ...
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