Something goes boom in the night: the explosion of a Cold War secret
A Soviet crewed launch to the Salyut-7 space station suffered a launch failure in the fall of 1983, with the launch abort system on the Soyuz spacecraft saving the crew. Dwayne Day and Asif Siddiqi describe what is now known about that failure and how the United States discovered it happened.
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- T2Something goes boom in the night: the explosion of a Cold War secretSpacePolicyOnline / The Space Review