A SpaceX test flight endangered several packed passenger jets when it unexpectedly exploded over the Caribbean earlier this year, according to newly-released documents from the Federal Aviation ...
In July 1969, just weeks before Apollo 11 reached the Moon, the Soviet Union attempted to launch its massive N1 lunar rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Designed as the USSR’s answer to the Saturn V ...
A nuclear warhead sat in the silo - then the rocket exploded beneath it In September 1980, a routine maintenance operation at a Titan II missile silo in Damascus, Arkansas, went catastrophically wrong ...