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Baikonur cosmodrome: "Ambience as at Gagarin's times"

Baikonur, Kazakhstan - Italian team's commentaries

"Here all is the same as at Gagarin's times. Everything is based on tradition". This is the commentary of Filippo Ongaro, Italian astronaut Roberto Vittori's personal doctor. The Italian team is in Baikonur -the oldest space launch facility in the world-, waiting for the tomorrow launch of the shuttle Soyuz, Italian Roberto Vittori on board. "Everything is very different from Cape Canaveral" said...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 27059
Rome, Italy, 04/24/2002 14:27
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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