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Cosmodrome Baikonur photos. Great.
http://foto.netwind.ru/albums/baikonur/ ^ | April 2006 | Den

Posted on 09/19/2006 2:54:45 AM PDT by vertolet

http://foto.netwind.ru/albums/baikonur/

TOPICS: Astronomy; Outdoors; Science; Travel
KEYWORDS: baikonur; buran; cosmodrome; kazakhstan; photos; proton; rocket; russia; soyuz; space

Great photos!

1 posted on 09/19/2006 2:54:47 AM PDT by vertolet

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To: vertolet

Looks much like inside Chernobyl Control Room. Very rudimentary instrumentation.

Did that Buran ever fly?

2 posted on 09/19/2006 3:26:59 AM PDT by MindBender26 (Having my own CAR-15 in RVN meant never having to say I was sorry....)

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To: MindBender26

Simplicity is a tradition for russian engineers.

Buran: http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/spacecraft/q0153.shtml

3 posted on 09/19/2006 3:43:11 AM PDT by vertolet

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To: vertolet

Very interesting! Thanks.

4 posted on 09/19/2006 4:19:49 AM PDT by jigsaw (God Bless Our Wonderful Troops.)

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To: IncPen

ping interesting links

5 posted on 09/19/2006 5:55:36 AM PDT by Nailbiter

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