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The Gemini 9 T-38 tragedy and the hidden Soviet pad inferno, two disasters that shaped the space race

A Gemini crew’s fatal T 38 crash narrowly missed wiping out Project Gemini, while a catastrophic Soviet launch pad accident in 1960 was hidden behind a false story for decades. Together, these moments ...
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The Gemini 9 T-38 crash that nearly destroyed NASA’s moon plans, and changed Apollo 11 forever

In February 1966, a Gemini crew’s T 38 jet slammed into McDonnell’s Building 101 in a storm, killing two astronauts and narrowly missing the heart of the Gemini program. Had the impact been just ...