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Russia humiliated as launchpad explodes and SpaceX spy plot falls apart

Russia’s once-dominant human spaceflight program has been shaken by a self-inflicted disaster on the steppe and a failed ...
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The Nedelin catastrophe, the Baikonur launch pad explosion the Soviets hid for decades, and the real cost of beating the US to space

In 1960, a rushed R-16 ICBM launch attempt at Baikonur erupted into a catastrophic pad explosion, then vanished behind a fabricated official story for decades. This is how it happened, why the Soviet ...