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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 21, 2020
- 13 min
N1: The Rise and Fall of the USSR's Moon Rocket
The Soviet N1 rocket was the competitor to the American Saturn V. Why didn't it ever make it to the moon?
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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 20, 2020
- 2 min
Operation Dirty Trick: or, How Castro Would have Been Blamed if a Mercury Mission had Failed
Godspeed, John Glenn
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Aeryn Avilla
- Feb 16, 2020
- 7 min
The Forgotten Soviet Female Cosmonauts of the 1960s
Though Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space, the Soviet Union actually selected five other women for its cosmonaut corps.
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