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This image shows the launch site of Europe America Space Flight 500, the Plesetsk Cosmodrome, during the Cold War. Originally a top-secret ICBM site, Plesetsk was converted shortly after the Soviet Union's fall in 1991 into a commercial launch…

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.