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A list of antennas and shipboard systems on the Marshal Krylov, the reconverted missile-tracking ship that was used as Space Flight 500's recovery vessel.

Pictured is the American organizer for Europe America Space Flight 500, Bob Walsh, at the 1990 Seattle Goodwill Games. Walsh was influential in bringing the Games to Seattle as a sign of improving US-Soviet relations during the Cold War, and later…

A photograph of Europe America Space Flight 500's capsule aboard the Marshal Krylov, shortly after touchdown on November 22nd, 1992.

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.

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.

This image is of a Soviet R-7 Semyorka Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. Developed in the late 1950s, the R-7 would become the base platform for the later Soyuz rocket booster in the 1960s. This system would go on to become one of the most…

Norm Rice was the mayor of Seattle at the time of Space Flight 500's launch. In a letter to Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Rice mentioned the historical ties between Seattle and the people of Russia, such as actions of citizen diplomacy and the…

Seattle's skyline from Elliott Bay in the mid-1990s.

A KA-27 "Helix" helicopter, similar to ones which assisted the Marshal Krylov in recovering Space Flight 500's capsule in 1992. Designed as a military transport and antisubmarine helicopter, KA-27 variants became available for a variety of civilian…

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…