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Vosto?nyj spaceport will be ready for inaugural launch by 2015

Moscow, Russia - The first manned mission should depart from here in 2018

Russian Federal Space Agency Roscosmos announced that the new Vosto?nyj spaceport, in the easternmost region of Russia, Amur Oblast, should be ready for the inaugural launch by 2015. The cosmodrome was projected to reduce the dependence of Russia from the one of Baikonur in Kazakhstan, but it is expected it will completely replace it in its function, one day. On Monday, April 4, as reported today...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1127906
Rome, Italy, 04/06/2011 13:03
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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