Russia puts spacecraft into orbit
September 8th, 2010 | 
Author: MOSCOW. Sept 8 (Interfax-AVN) – Two Cosmos military spacecraft and a Gonets satellite have been put into orbit successfully, Alexei Zolotukhin, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry's Space Force…
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