Nauka nearly wrecked the ISS. Robert Zimmerman, BehindtheBlack.com

Aug 05, 2021, 01:29 AM

Photo: Roll-out of the Progress 24 vehicle occurred on schedule at 7:00 a.m., Jan. 16, 2007 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.    The vehicle was in the vertical and hard-down at the pad by 9:30 a.m. The gantry towers were placed around the vehicle shortly thereafter.

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