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An aerial photograph of the nuclear submarine pens at Bangor, where submarines would be berthed and loaded with Trident-II ballistic missiles.

A map of the different Soviet administrative divisions as they existed in 1989, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall and two years prior to the Soviet Union's dissolution in December of 1991.

A side view of the Russian missile tracking vessel Marshal Krylov in 1990. This ship would later recover the Resurs capsule launched for Europe America Space Flight 500 off the coast of Seattle in 1992.

A Korean flight is shot down by USSR.

An image of Boris Yeltsin, the first President of Russia, in 1993. Yeltsin was president during the planning and launch of Europe America Space Flight 500, as well as during the periods of Russian economic instability post-1991.

Jewish groups advocating freedom for Soviet Jews