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Soyuz Poised for High Stakes November 13 Blastoff – Space Stations Fate Hinges on Success

November 13, 2011

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The stakes could not be higher for the Russian Soyuz rocket now poised at the launch pad at Baikonur in Kazakhstan and which will loft the next trio of space flyers to the International Space Station on Sunday, Nov. 13. This [...]

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Video Duet – Soyuz Debut Blast off from the Amazon Jungle and Rockin’ Russian Rollout !

October 22, 2011

Watch the video of today’s debut lift off of a Russian Soyuz rocket from the edge of the Amazon jungle at the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana as it successfully carried the first two Galileo In-Orbit Validation satellites to space after an arduous 7 year struggle to mesh Russian and European technologies and cultures [...]

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Historic 1st Launch of Legendary Soyuz from South America

October 21, 2011

Russia’s legendary Soyuz rocket soared skywards today (Oct.21) on its historic 1st ever blastoff from a new European space base in the equatorial jungles of South America. The history making liftoff of the Soyuz ST-B launcher from French Guiana occurred at exactly 6:30:26 a.m. EST (10:30:26 GMT) and lofted the first two operational satellites of [...]

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50th Anniversary Ceremony Recreates First US Manned Spaceflight by Alan Shepard

May 10, 2011

NASA celebrated the 50th anniversary of the first American manned spaceflight at a special ceremony on May 5, 2011 which recreated every moment of that short suborbital flight by the late Mercury astronaut Alan B. Shepard. The event unfolded from the very spot and launch pad 5/6 where he blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air [...]

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Yuri Gagarin From the Earth to Mars Tribute

April 19, 2011

50 Years ago, the dream of human spaceflight opened with the courageous blastoff of Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin inside the Vostok 1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. Gagarin was the first person to orbit the Earth. Less than a month later on May 5. 1961, Astronaut Alan Shepard bravely set forth on America’s first human spaceflight [...]

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