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Word: kapustin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been launched at a later time of day than previous Cosmos shots and had returned to earth after 122 revolutions, instead of the usual 124. In a letter to the Brit ish magazine Flight International, Perry reported that Cosmos 112 could not have been launched from either Tyuratam or Kapustin Yar, the two known Russian launch sites, both of which are in the southern part of the Soviet Union. Instead, he suggested, it had been launched from a more northerly site-perhaps the southernmost tip of Novaya Zemlya, an island in the Barents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: The Secret of Plesetsk | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

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