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Unmanned Russian Soyuz Blows Up On Launch

adagioforstrings writes "CNN reports that a 300-tonne unmanned Soyuz-U launch vehicle exploded 29 seconds after take-off from Russia's Arctic Plesetsk cosmodrome late on Tuesday, its blazing debris showering onto the launchpad and its blastwave killing one and injuring eight others. A modified version of this same kind of rocket will be used to carry cosmonauts to the ISS later this month."

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  1. That was just a warning by RedWolves2 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Lance Bass pay up or we will send you to space!!!!