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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 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.

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.

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…

A Soyuz booster rocket launches from a Soviet Cosmodrome in 1975. Based off the late 1950's R7 series of intercontinental ballistic missile, the Soyuz booster rocket was used to launch Soviet and Russian spacecraft into orbit.

More Ground Zero protesters gathered outside the gates of Bangor during their 1999 August Action.