Not long after, the Museum commissioned Gianakos to build two additional display models: a 1/48th-scale model of the 1960s Soviet N1 moon rocket, built for the Space Race exhibit hall in 1996 ...

On March 18, 1980, a Soviet rocket exploded on the launchpad and killed 48 people. The Vostok-2M rocket was about to launch a new spy satellite called Tselina-D. Military technicians were working ...