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A modern-day image of the St. Petersburg Bank in Russia, a significant backer/partner in Europe America Space Flight 500.

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

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…

The schedule of events put out by organizers Bob Walsh & Associates, detailing the list of events which occurred during the course of Space Flight 500's landing and celebrations in Seattle.

This Resurs-500 capsule was launched on November 16th, 1992 from the former Soviet Plesetsk Cosmodrome as the heart of the Europe America Space Flight 500. Loaded with gifts, souvenirs, art, and business goods, it landed off the coast of Seattle on…