Contemporary era · 1960
Nedelin catastrophe
The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster, known in Russia as the Catastrophe at Baikonur Cosmodrome (Russian: Катастрофа на Байконуре, romanized: Katastrofa na Baikonure), was a launch-pad accident that occurred on 24 October 1960 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR, during preparations for the first test flight of a prototype R-16 intercontinental ballistic missile.
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- When
- 24 Oct 1960
- Where
- Baikonur Cosmodrome
- Era
- Contemporary
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Text from the Wikipedia article Nedelin catastrophe, CC BY-SA 4.0