An image of the Plesetsk Soyuz-2 launch complex in 2006. Formerly a secret ICBM base, Plesetsk has been transformed into a civilian cosmodrome for commercial launches.
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…
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.