";s:4:"text";s:4619:" Before the disaster Yangel had ambitions to challenge Sergei Korolev as leader of the Manned Space program, but he was directed to focus on the R-16.A memorial the victims of the testers was erected in the first half of the 60 years of the last century soldier in the Park of the Baikonur and is still visited by RKA officials before any manned launch.According to Sergei Khrushchev, Brezhnev did insist that the commission punish none, explaining that "The guilty have already been punished".Complete secrecy was immediately imposed on the events of 24 October by Nikita Khrushchev. Entgegen dem vorliegenden technischen Plan waren die Reparaturarbeiten nach ausdrücklichem Befehl Nedelins bei aktiviertem Bordenergiesystem erfolgt. A news release stated that Nedelin had died "in a plane crash while on an undisclosed mission." As a prototype of the missile was being prepared for a test flight, it exploded on the launch pad when its second stage motors ignited prematurely, killing many military personnel, engineers, and technicians working on the project. [8] As a prototype of the missile was being prepared for a test flight, an explosion occurred when second stage engines ignited accidentally, killing many military and technical personnel working on the preparations.
Als Jangel kurz nach dem Unfall Chruschtschow in einem Telefongespräch über den Tod Nedelins und der anderen zahlreichen Opfer berichtete, fragte ihn dieser: „Wie kommt es, dass Sie überlebt haben?“Als Ursache des Unglücks werden unsachgemäße Handhabung der defekten und bereits betankten Rakete unter Zeitdruck und wesentlich beschleunigte Zeitpläne angenommen. It’s dangerous and cost the Soviet army much more than they bargained for.On October 24, 1960 at the Baikonur Test Range in Russia, a massive explosion occurred in the testing of the Soviet ICBM R-16 missile. The second-stage engine ignited, detonating the first-stage fuel tanks (which had not been drained) directly beneath it causing this catastrophic explosion.