Many believed that perhaps the Soviet Union would ultimately triumph in the Space Race to the Moon. But while NASA’s Apollo ...

After the N1 rocket failed in the early 1970s ... The tale of the engines that propelled the Antares rocket, which exploded in a spectacular ball of flame in Virginia Tuesday night, begins ...

The N1 rocket that they created to take them there ... setting off a chain reaction. The rocket exploded with the force of seven kilotons of TNT, equivalent to a small nuclear bomb.

Then, it exploded. (Welcome to Today in History ... The Soviet Union's answer to the Space Race question was the N1 rocket, which was the Soviet counterpart to the US Saturn V.

the Soviet N1 rocket was made famous for a slightly different reason—when it blew up on takeoff it resulted in the largest, non-nuclear, man-made explosion of all time. This week’s Oobject ...

N1 was aimed at enabling crewed travel to the ... SpaceX conducted the first test launch of Starship in April. The rocket exploded in less than four minutes after take-off, damaging the launch ...

Orbital Sciences' Antares rocket exploded just seconds after lifting ... which the Soviet Union built for its N1 moon rocket during the space race. Orbital ATK isn't the only American spaceflight ...