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page 120th-century rocket launches
STS-51-L
STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger.
Soyuz 7K-T No.39
unsuccessful crewed launch of the Soyuz programme
Mercury-Redstone 1
test flight of the Redstone rocket and Mercury spacecraft
DOS-2
DOS-2 was a space station, launched as part of the Salyut programme, which was lost in a launch failure on 29 July 1972, when the failure of the second stage of its Proton-K launch vehicle prevented the station from achieving orbit. It instead fell into the Pacific Ocean. The station, which would have been given the designation Salyut 2 had it reached orbit, was structurally identical to Salyut 1, as it had been assembled as a backup unit for that station. Four teams of cosmonauts were formed to crew the station, of which two would have flown:
Alexei Leonov and Valeri Kubasov
Vasily Lazarev an
V-2 No. 13
modified V-2 rocket