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The 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster was the explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket carrying a Tselina-D satellite during fueling at Site 43/4 of the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in the town of Mirny in the Soviet Union at 19:01 local time (16:01 UTC) on 18 March 1980, two hours and fifteen minutes before the intended launch time.
Rocket Lab has set its next big Electron rocket launch from the Wallops Flight Facility, but be warned: You'll have to either get up very early or stay up very late to watch it.
The aerospace company’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 8:40 p.m. It carried 20 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit, including 13 with Direct to Cell ...
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Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (U.S. title: Those Fantastic Flying Fools; also known as Chiflados Del Espacio, Blast-off, and Rocket to the Moon) is a 1967 British science fiction comedy film directed by Don Sharp and starring Burl Ives, Troy Donahue, Gert Fröbe and Terry-Thomas. [3]
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa na Baikonure), was a launch pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Soviet Kazakhstan.
The bunker was designed to withstand the explosion of a fully fueled Saturn V rocket on the pad above, [3] and could support up to 20 people for 24 hours. [1] Blast door to the rubber room, looking from the antechamber into the main room. Access to the bunker was via a 200-foot (61 m) slide chute that began at an opening on the surface of the ...
The uncrewed mission around the moon will pave the way for a crewed flight test and future human lunar exploration.