In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11, the Soviet Union lost its giant N1 moon rocket in one of the most powerful non nuclear explosions in history. Kept secret for decades, the disaster revealed ...
Two weeks before Apollo 11, the USSR’s N-1 moon rocket detonated at Baikonur in a blast witnesses compared to the end of the world. Using declassified intelligence and the fractured Soviet timeline, ...
After nearly a decade of development, Russia’s newest launch vehicle is close to its debut flight. The medium-lift Soyuz 5 rocket is expected to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome before the end of ...