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Oct. 24, 1960: Soviet Rocket Explodes, Killing Top Engineers, Technicians

Posted October 24, 2011 1:18 PM

From Wired Top Stories:

Impatient to get his latest ICBM airborne, the head of Soviet rocket forces orders technicians to fix a problem without bothering to defuel the booster. It's a very bad idea.

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10/25/2011 12:47 PM

As Mitrofan Ivanovich Nedelin was growing up, he remembers the long talks with his grandfather.

And his grandfather always reinforce him by saying. "Someday Ivan, you'll have a catastrophe named after you"

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