Soyuz booster fails again; cosmonaut stay on Mir extended
Russia's Soyuz-U suffered a second straight failure last week when one of the space launchers shut down about 50 seconds after liftoff and fell back to Earth, destroying its classified military payload. The three-stage launcher, manufactured by the TsSKB-Progress State Space Center of Samara, was...
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