On October 24, 1960, at 6:45 p.m., everything turned on Baikonur's firing pad. A flame came up unannounced, covering everyone. I did not know that this explosion, this disaster hidden by the Kremlin for thirty years, was going to become the worst accident in the history of the rocket. More
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On October 24, 1960, at 6:45 p.m., everything turned on Baikonur's firing pad. A flame came up unannounced, covering everyone. I did not know that this explosion, this disaster hidden by the Kremlin for thirty years, was going to become the worst accident in the history of the rocket. More