66 years ago today, October 24 1960, at Baikonur Cosmodrome's Pad 41 a R-16 ICBM exploded on the ground and killed dozens of workers who were around at the time. About a month and a half later a KH-2 CORONA satellite captured the scorched pad from orbit: spacefromspace.com/declassified...
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For more on this check out an article I worked with @kennen11.bsky.social on last year that touched on this event: thespacereview.com/article/5082...
thespacereview.comThe Space Review: Unleashing hell: the R-16 ICBM
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