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Studying the Space race10/23/2020 I have always enjoyed studying rockets. I have always been inirested in rockets from the Soviet Union. Unlike their Nasa counterparts, they are made with less expensive solutions. What is truly impressive is the fact that these rockets broke records. The Vostok 1, a modified R-7 rocket, carried Yuri Gagarin to be the first man in space. The Vostok 6 carried the first woman, Valentina Tereshkova into space. On top of the Voskhod, Alexei Leonov became the first man to do a space walk. However they stopped breaking records when there moon rocket, the N1, failed 4 times. The N1 was the Soviet response to Nasa's under construction Saturn V. The N1 launched before the Saturn V did, with only a quarter of the funding. Three of its launches exploded mid air. On its second launch, The N1 fell back onto the pad after going 1,000 ft. into the air. This caused the world's largest recorded man made non nuclear explosion. Debris was shot 6 miles away from the explosion. 32 miles away, windows where shattered. The pad was completely destroyed. Here is the footage from the explosion:
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