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Old September 29th, 2017 #9
Ray Allan
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Default Rocket man says "spasibo"

For our non-Russian readers:

The little Sputnik model inside Soyuz was for Sputnik's 60th anniversary, October 4, 2017.

The Soyuz MS-06 mission blasted off from the same launch pad at Baikonur, Kazakhstan as Sputnik and Yuri Gagarin, as have all Russian manned space launches. And they are using the same basic rocket as Sputnik and Gagarin, developed from the world's first ICBM, R-7 Semyorka. It has launched over 600 times since 1957.

Although this was a night launch and was unseen in darkness, the four outboard booster rockets separated at +118 seconds in a pattern called the Korolev Cross.
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