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	Nedelin catastrophe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Nedelin catastrophe or Nedelin disaster was a launch pad accident that occurred on October 24, 1960, at Baikonur Cosmodrome during the development of the Soviet R-16 ICBM.
		In October of 1960, the rocket was nearing completion, and Yangel and Nedelin hoped to produce a successful launch before the November 7 anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
		A news release stated that Nedelin had died in a plane crash, and the families of the other engineers were advised to say their loved ones had died of the same cause.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nedelin_catastrophe (996 words)

	Nedelin catastrophe - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Nedelin also notified military dignatories of the launch so that they could come and observe it.
		A news release stated that Nedelin had died in a plane crash, and the families of the other engineers were advised their loved ones had died of the same cause.
		Nedelin catastrophe, Prelude to disaster, October 23, October 24, Aftermath, References, External links, Non-combat accidents involving military and Soviet space program.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Nedelin_catastrophe (1029 words)

	Science Fair Projects - Nedelin catastrophe
		Despite the magnitude of the disaster, it was covered up for many years by the Soviet government and did not emerge until the 1990s.
		Despite their extensive experience with the R-12 and R-14 missile programs, neither Nedelin nor Yangel recognized the danger associated with rapidly preparing a prototype rocket.
		Nedelin also notified military dignataries of the launch so that they could come and observe it.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/Nedelin_catastrophe (975 words)

	Nedelin disaster
		On October 26, 1960, the Soviet newspapers published a short communique from the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Soviet of Ministers of the USSR informing that Marshall of Artillery Mitrofan Nedelin has died in the airplane crash.
		Yangel and Marshall of Artillery Mitrofan Nedelin, the commander of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces hoped to deliver a big present to Khrushchev for the celebration of the Bolshevik Revolution on November 7 -- a successful test launch of the first R-16 missile.
		By the time of the fueling, all unessential personnel was suppose to leave the area, however, according to several accounts, Marshall Nedelin and Chief-Designer Mikhail Yangel ignored the safety rules and stayed at the pad.
	www.russianspaceweb.com /r16_disaster.html (3636 words)

	NEDELIN대참사 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
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		BorisKonoplev126명의 사람은 소련 전략 미사일 힘 총사련관을 포함하여Nedelin과 주요한 디자이너Mitrofan, 죽었다.
		It is licensed under the GNU free documentation license.
	www.faktoko.com /wiki/ko/ne/Nedelin%B4%EB%C2%FC%BB%E7.htm (106 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Saddler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		After years of government coverup, this Nedelin disaster was finally revealed.
		After the massive delays associated with the deaths of most people working on the project, the first flight of the missile took place on 2 February 1961.
		As a prototype of the missile was being prepared for a test flight, it spontaneously exploded on...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Saddler (959 words)

	Nedelin
		Council of Soviet Ministers (SM) Decree 1384-615 / TsK Decree 254 'On the Establishment of the Post of Commander-in-Chief of Missile Forces in the Armed Forces of the USSR--creation of the Strategic Missile Forces' are issued.
		Marshal Nedelin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, ordered the engineers and technicians to fix the problem without the long delay of defuelling and refurbishing the missile.
		Among the dead were Nedelin, Konoptev, Grishin, Nosov, Kontsevsky, and Lev Berlin.
	www.astronautix.com /astros/nedelin.htm (626 words)

	Marsnik
		Furious at the failures, he insisted that a third probe be hurriedly ready to dispatch before the 1960 launch window closed.
		On Oct. 23, 1960, the rocket failed to liftoff on time and the Soviet commander, Marshall Nedelin, demanded that the vehicle be examined at once.
		Ignoring normal safety precautions the technicians approached the fully-fuelled rocket which suddenly exploded, killing Nedelin and almost the entire launch team.
	www.daviddarling.info /encyclopedia/M/Marsnik.html (257 words)

	Mikhail Yangel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His bureau designed the R-12 and R-16, whose launch vehicle adaptations are known as Cosmos and Tsyklon respectively.
		Yangel narrowly avoided death in the Nedelin catastrophe.
		For his outstanding work, Mikhail Yangel was awarded the Lenin Prize in 1960 and USSR State Prize in 1967.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mikhail_Yangel (231 words)

	Aerospaceweb.org \| Ask Us - Nedelin Disaster
		Both Nedelin and Yangel hoped to please Premier Nikita Khrushchev by demonstrating a successful launch of the R-16 prior to November 7, the anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
		Repairs continued to drag on the next day prompting Nedelin to demand to be taken to the pad "to figure out what's going on." In addition to Nedelin and his subordinates, Yangel and a number of visiting dignitaries were also taken to the pad to personally direct the pre-launch operations.
		Marshal Nedelin is still regarded as a hero to the Russian people for his service during World War II, and his untimely death was explained away as an aircraft accident.
	www.aerospaceweb.org /question/spacecraft/q0179.shtml (2424 words)

	The Nedelin Catastrophe
		In my books, articles, and lectures, I labeled the event "the Nedelin Catastrophe." If any one man deserved such an eponymous disaster, it was Field Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, then 54 years old.
		The pressure on Nedelin to launch would have been intense: Khrushchev had been at the United Nations in New York earlier that month giving a speech about Soviet foreign policy and anticipating another spectacular feat to flaunt before the world.
		When I had first asked to see "the Nedelin memorial" I was gently rebuked by my young guide, who hadn't even been born when the tragedy occurred.
	www.friends-partners.org /partners/mwade/articles/therophe.htm (2601 words)

	Nedelin catastrophe - RSCI, The Science Classification Index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nedelin catastrophe - RSCI, The Science Classification Index
		Designed by experienced rocket scientist Mikhail Yangel, the R-16 develepment program was commanded by Strategic Rocket Forces Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin.
		In October of 1960, the rocket was nearing completion, and Yangel and Nedelin hoped to produce a succesful launch before the November 7 anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
	www.scienceindex.org /Nedelin_catastrophe.html (869 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Soviet media also have not reported on the most spectacular "and probably the greatest disaster of the space age," the "Nedelin catastrophe," which on about Oct. 24, 1960, killed scores of Soviets including Marshal Mitrofan Nedelin, the commander in chief of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces.
		The accident came three years after the Soviets launched the first satellite, "Sputnik." Operating in the strictest secrecy, the Soviets launched two unmanned spacecraft on a probe to Mars, but both fell back into the atmosphere and burned up because their upper stages failed.
		The Soviet press carried an official obituary of Nedelin several days later, saying that he had "died tragically in the line of duty" in a plane crash.
	www.cse.iitb.ac.in /~sanjeet_khtn/trecdocs/AP880220-0071.txt (498 words)

	Space disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Explosion of R-16 ICBM on launch pad (not space related) (see Nedelin catastrophe).
		1960 October 24: explosion: A rocket exploded on a Soviet launchpad killing 126 people in what is known in the West as the Nedelin catastrophe.
		While once thought to have been space related (based on the little information available outside the Soviet Union), it later emerged that the accident was connected with the development of a new ICBM.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_space_disasters (4658 words)

	Article: Shadows of the Soviet Space Age, by Paul Lucas
		On October 24, 1960, the Soviet Union suffered a catastrophic launch-pad explosion as a relatively minor oversight turned a space vehicle into a massive chemical bomb.
		At the Baikonur Space Center in Central Asia (now part of Kazakhstan), in an incident referred to as the Nedelin Catastrophe, the second stage on an experimental R-16 ICBM accidentally ignited on the launch pad.
		However, the Kremlin was anxious for a propaganda victory at a time when its space lead was slipping to the Americans, and ignoring the lessons of the 1960 Nedelin Catastrophe, ordered the launch over the protests of the project's Chief Designer, V.P. Mishin.
	www.strangehorizons.com /2004/20040503/shadows.shtml (4240 words)

	Baikonur Cosmodrome
		Many historic flights originated in Baikonur: the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, on October 4, 1957, the first manned orbital flight by Yuri Gagarin in 1961, and the flight of the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova in 1963.
		It is also the site of the Nedelin catastrophe in 1960, in which a prototype ICBM exploded before launch, killing over 100.
		The program continued after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, under the auspices of the Commonwealth of Independent States.
	www.ufaqs.com /wiki/en/ba/Baikonur%20Cosmodrome.htm (510 words)

	Soviet Space Secrets
		In 1990, there had been only a small, unlabelled glass-covered case in a poorly-lit back corner, holding a charred notebook and a few books about Nedelin.
		In 1995, there were two full-size wall-mounted cases in the main entrance hall, with the same charred notebook, but also with explicit labels about the 1960 accident, with photographs of the missile which exploded, with fragments of the missile, and with a plaque listing the "Testers of Baikonur" who perished.
		There are several spelling errors and Nedelin's name is on the museum's list.
	www.fplib.org /partners/mwade/articles/sovcrets.htm (1833 words)

	List of space disasters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On August 22 2003 an unmanned rocket set to carry satellites into orbit exploded on its launchpad Brazil killing 21 technicians.
		On October 24 1960 a rocket exploded on a Soviet killing 126 people in what is known the West as the Nedelin catastrophe.
		While once thought to have been (based on the little information available outside Soviet Union) it later emerged that the was connected with the development of a ICBM.
	www.freeglossary.com /List_of_catastrophic_incidents_related_to_human_spaceflight (2654 words)

	Spacecrafts launched in 1960 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At this point, there were still approximately 200 officers, engineers and soldiers near the pad, including Marshal Nedelin, the Strategic Missile Forces Commander-in-Chief, who scoffed at suggestions that he leave the pad area.
		As the temperature raged to around 3,000 degrees, people just simply melted in the firestorm, many being reduced to ashes, Nedelin himself was identified only by his Gold Star medal attached to his uniform.
		The entire incident was kept under tight wraps, and Marshal Nedelin was said to have died in an aircraft accident, a piece of fiction that the Soviets officially maintained until early 1989.
	www.sciencepresse.qc.ca /clafleur/Spacecrafts-1960.html (6213 words)

	List of space disasters Article, Listspacedisasters Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On August 22, 2003 an unmanned rocketset to carry two satellites into orbit exploded on its launchpad in Brazil killing 21technicians.
		On October 24, 1960 a rocket explodedon a Soviet launchpad killing 126 people in what is known in the West as the Nedelin catastrophe.
		While once thought to have been space related (based on the little informationavailable outside the Soviet Union) it later emerged that the accident was connected with the development of a new ICBM.
	www.anoca.org /crew/launch/list_of_space_disasters.html (2833 words)

	DEMO DEMO DEMO Soviet space program (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Yangle had been Korolev's assistant but with the support of the Military was given his own design bureau in 1954.
		This had the stronger rocket engine design team including the use of hypergolic fuels but Following the Nedelin catastrophe in 1960 Yangle was directed to concentrate on ICBM development though he continued to develop his own heavy booster designs in Competition with Korolev's N-1.
		Glushko was the chief rocket engine designer but shared a personal hatred with Korolev and refused to develop the large single chamber cryogenic engines that Korolev needed to beat the US to the moon.
	soviet-space-program.164.borgfind.com (1618 words)

	"All guilty had been punished already." \| MetaFilter
		August 31, 2006 10:53 AM The Nedelin disaster remains the most fatal catastrophe in the history of rocketry.
		I'd never heard of the Nedelin disaster before today, thanks.
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	www.metafilter.com /mefi/54417 (855 words)

	Inner Secrets of Outer Space (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		And what secrets have taken decades to slip out of the old Soviet space program?
		Oberg describes his decades-long campaign to discover the full truth of the 1960 'Nedelin Catastrophe' at Russia's space base, when 100 men perished in a launch pad accident set off by imprudent officials under intense Kremlin pressure.
		All in all, the whole adage holds true: it's better to tell the truth, because being a liar takes too good a memory.
	www.jamesoberg.com /innersecrets.html (240 words)

	MarsBlog -- News and Commentary on Space: -
		Compare this with procedures for the Shuttle, where you have perhaps two dozen people within three miles of the launch pad while the vehicle is tanking and the crew is being strapped in.
		Seeing this, one can understand how something like the Nedelin Catastrophe might have occurred.
		Posted by T.L. James on May 4, 2002 04:39 PM
	www.marsblog.net /archives/000330.html (264 words)

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