Devastating failure of NASA Rocket and a Research aircraft during takeoff blast

A NASA research aircraft and a rocket experience devastating failures during takeoff in 1960s at the height of Cold war.

The Space Race was a competition between two Cold War rivals, the United States USA and the Soviet Union (USSR) Russia to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. The democratic, capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union–against each other.

Apollo 13 crew managed to survive an explosion of the oxygen tank in their spacecraft's service module on the way to the moon.

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