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The first animals to circle the Moon weren't astronauts—they were two Central Asian steppe tortoises aboard the Soviet Zond 5, which beat Apollo 8 by three months in 1968. They returned alive after the week-long journey, having lost only about 10% of their body weight.

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Under the Ruins of a Baikonur Hangar Since 2002 Sleeps the only Soviet Shuttle to Have Stolen

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In September 1983, a Soyuz rocket caught fire on the pad with two cosmonauts strapped in above it, and the flames burned through the cables carrying the abort command. Saving them came down to two controllers pressing their buttons within five seconds of each other

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The most secretive facility of the Cold War is named after a town it isn't actually in: the Soviets called it Baikonur specifically to mislead the West, while the true launch site sat two hundred miles away, hidden on the Kazakh steppe

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Aug. 9, 1976: Luna 24 blasts off

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When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to the Mir station in May 1991 from Baikonur in the Kazakh SSR, he was a citizen of the Soviet Union, and when he finally landed 311 days later the country that sent him had dissolved, his home city of Leningrad had been renamed St Petersburg, and his monthly pay was worth almost nothing

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California's Ranch Fire burned 459,123 acres in 53 days; eight years later, crews planted 71,000 seedlings across the scar in eight days

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It Flew Once in 1988, without Anyone on Board: What Destroyed It Fourteen Years Later Did Not Come From Space

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Russian Soyuz MS-29 Crew Spacecraft Arrival

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In a Baikonur Hangar, an Intact Space Shuttle Had Been Sleeping Since 1988: in 2002, What Fell on Him Killed 8 Workers.

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The first animals to circle the Moon weren't astronauts—they were two Central Asian steppe tortoises aboard the Soviet Zond 5, which beat Apollo 8 by three months in 1968. They returned alive after the week-long journey, having lost only about 10% of their body weight.

Under the Ruins of a Baikonur Hangar Since 2002 Sleeps the only Soviet Shuttle to Have Stolen

In September 1983, a Soyuz rocket caught fire on the pad with two cosmonauts strapped in above it, and the flames burned through the cables carrying the abort command. Saving them came down to two controllers pressing their buttons within five seconds of each other

The most secretive facility of the Cold War is named after a town it isn't actually in: the Soviets called it Baikonur specifically to mislead the West, while the true launch site sat two hundred miles away, hidden on the Kazakh steppe

Aug. 9, 1976: Luna 24 blasts off

California's Ranch Fire burned 459,123 acres in 53 days; eight years later, crews planted 71,000 seedlings across the scar in eight days

It Flew Once in 1988, without Anyone on Board: What Destroyed It Fourteen Years Later Did Not Come From Space

Russian Soyuz MS-29 Crew Spacecraft Arrival

In a Baikonur Hangar, an Intact Space Shuttle Had Been Sleeping Since 1988: in 2002, What Fell on Him Killed 8 Workers.

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The first animals to circle the Moon weren't astronauts—they were two Central Asian steppe tortoises aboard the Soviet Zond 5, which beat Apollo 8 by three months in 1968. They returned alive after the week-long journey, having lost only about 10% of their body weight.

Under the Ruins of a Baikonur Hangar Since 2002 Sleeps the only Soviet Shuttle to Have Stolen

In September 1983, a Soyuz rocket caught fire on the pad with two cosmonauts strapped in above it, and the flames burned through the cables carrying the abort command. Saving them came down to two controllers pressing their buttons within five seconds of each other

The most secretive facility of the Cold War is named after a town it isn't actually in: the Soviets called it Baikonur specifically to mislead the West, while the true launch site sat two hundred miles away, hidden on the Kazakh steppe

Aug. 9, 1976: Luna 24 blasts off

California's Ranch Fire burned 459,123 acres in 53 days; eight years later, crews planted 71,000 seedlings across the scar in eight days

It Flew Once in 1988, without Anyone on Board: What Destroyed It Fourteen Years Later Did Not Come From Space

Russian Soyuz MS-29 Crew Spacecraft Arrival

In a Baikonur Hangar, an Intact Space Shuttle Had Been Sleeping Since 1988: in 2002, What Fell on Him Killed 8 Workers.

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