Oct. 24, 1960: Russian Rocket Explodes, Killing Top Engineers, Technicians
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Impatient to get his latest ICBM airborne, the head of Russia's rocket forces orders technicians to fix a problem without bothering to defuel the booster. It's a very bad idea.
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Victims of explosions in Slovakia rise to three    PRAGUE, March 3 (Xinhua) -- The number of victims who died in Friday's explosions in an ammunition storage facility of the Slovak Military Repairs Company rose to three, Slovak Defense Ministry spokesman Vladimir Gemela said on Saturday.
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BESLAN, Russia - At least seven people were killed and 310 others wounded Friday, reports said, after commandos stormed a school in southern Russia where hundreds had been held hostage for three days by rebels strapped with explosives.    Troops killed five of the hostage-takers but 13 others escaped, the ITAR-Tass news agency said...
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&quot;Both planes were destroyed as the result of terrorist acts,&quot; spokesman Lt Gen Andrei Fetisov told the Itar-Tass news agency.
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The Russian government abruptly shifted gears Friday and concluded that at least one of the two planes that fell out of the sky almost simultaneously this week was blown up
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A methane blast in a Siberian mine shaft has killed at least 10 people and injured 30, a Russian Government spokesman has said. The blast ripped through the mine as a 45-strong repair team was patching up
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By JUAN A. LOZANO HOUSTON - Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation and oxygen and water supplies were partly working again Thursday after failing the day before.
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Russian cosmonauts and engineers may have corrected a problem that caused computers aboard the International Space Station to crash.
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By JUDITH INGRAM  MARADYKOVSKY, Russia - Engineers covered in head-to-toe protective gear inserted a neutralizing solution Friday into bombs filled with a nerve agent, officially starting the work of Russia's first plant for destroying the deadly chemicals.
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Two crewmembers were killed when a fire broke out aboard a nuclear submarine in Russia's Northern Fleet, Russian Defense Ministry officials told CNN.
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A Russian Soyuz rocket is due to blast off from the Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan early Thursday. Astronaut Leroy Chiao and cosmonaut Salizhan Sharipovalso will observe conditions on
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A US Army soldier watches from atop his armoured vehicle as smoke rises in background after his unit destroyed a seized Katyusha rocket in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday Oct. 17, 2004.
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In late June of 1908, a fireball exploded above the remote Russian forests of Tunguska,  Siberia, flattening more than 800 square miles of trees. Researchers think a meteor was responsible for the devastation, but neither its fragments nor any impact craters have been discovered.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK LOS ANGELES - A rocket carrying a commercial communications satellite exploded Tuesday during launch from an oceangoing platform in the equatorial Pacific.
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Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti  Kirov, 31 January: An investigation has been launched into the death of a serviceman belonging to a regiment guarding the Maradykovskiy [Maradykovo] plant for the destruction of chemical weapons in Kirov Region.
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Vibrations in NASAâs new rocket may cause severe, perhaps fatal, injuries.
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KABUL: Seven people, including two US soldiers, were killed in explosions in Afghanistan, officials said on Saturday. Three rockets were also fired in the capital, injuring one woman and damaging an apartment building.