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The Soviet moon rocket that exploded weeks before Apollo 11
In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...
Imagine looking up at the moon and seeing space dust floating around it. Maybe broken-off parts of the moon are raining down on Earth. You’d wonder what happened; the moon was fine just last night.
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