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Re:Photos from inside the Baikonur Cosmodrome
by drzaiusapelord on Thursday July 02, 2015 @04:01PM
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>Given the general feel of incompetence and mismanagement on the Soviet side
200+ ground crew and spectators were blown apart by Soviet incompetence during the R-16 launch. Yes, there are far, far more deaths in the Soviet program. Its is literally history's worst rocket catastrophe. The Soviets even denied it and covered it up until 1989. Please stop parroting Russia propaganda. You're not fooling anyone here.
http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-disasters/nedelin-c...
http://www.astronautix.com/articles/therophe.htm
http://gizmodo.com/5239848/how-not-to-launch-a-rocket-the-ne...
That's only because Soyuz has a smaller crew capacity. Both Soyuz and STS have had the same number of catastrophic failures (Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11 on the Soyuz side; Challenger and Columbia on the STS side).
Neat fun fact: Soyuz 11 also has the distinction of being the cause of the only in-space human fatalities (all other spaceflight-related fatalities occurred either during launch or during reentry).