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The Soviet rocket explosion so deadly it was hidden for decades, inside the Nedelin disaster of 1960

In October 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test triggered a catastrophic explosion that killed over a hundred people and was concealed from the world for decades. Drawing on declassified records and ...
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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 ...