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The Nedelin catastrophe, the Soviet rocket pad explosion in 1960 that was hidden for decades

In 1960, a rushed Soviet missile test at Baikonur ignited into a lethal inferno, killing top personnel and vanishing from the ...

When Fake Nuclear Disaster Fallout Reached Los Angeles

As the cloud cleared, Air Force bombers dropped in to gather air samples. Researchers hoped that the radioactive fallout ...

“We’re too close to the debris”: How SpaceX rockets put passenger planes at risk

Using debris modeling and simulations, the U.S. Space Force, the branch of the military that deals with the nation’s space ...