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02-02-2003, 02:32 PM
Russian Space Launch Site Grieves for Columbia (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=SXNENQEMEWS4SCRBAE0CF FA?type=worldNews&storyID=2153935)
Sun February 2, 2003 07:52 AM ET
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russia's main space launch site was in grief Sunday after the break-up of the U.S. shuttle Columbia, minutes before the take-off of its own cargo ship to the International Space Station.
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"Everyone is in shock here. I myself have lived here for 25 years, and believe me -- the pain stings," a local journalist told Reuters by telephone from Baikonur, a cosmodrome in the endless steppe that Russia rents from Kazakhstan.
"Nobody had expected a tragedy like this, and we are in mourning and grief," Oleg Urusov, editor-in-chief of Baikonur's main space magazine Kosmodrom, told Reuters.
"Baikonur residents, as people close to the space industry and space exploration, take the Columbia catastrophe as they would the loss of their own loved ones," he added.
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Sun February 2, 2003 07:52 AM ET
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Reuters) - Russia's main space launch site was in grief Sunday after the break-up of the U.S. shuttle Columbia, minutes before the take-off of its own cargo ship to the International Space Station.
...
"Everyone is in shock here. I myself have lived here for 25 years, and believe me -- the pain stings," a local journalist told Reuters by telephone from Baikonur, a cosmodrome in the endless steppe that Russia rents from Kazakhstan.
"Nobody had expected a tragedy like this, and we are in mourning and grief," Oleg Urusov, editor-in-chief of Baikonur's main space magazine Kosmodrom, told Reuters.
"Baikonur residents, as people close to the space industry and space exploration, take the Columbia catastrophe as they would the loss of their own loved ones," he added.
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Click here to read more (http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=SXNENQEMEWS4SCRBAE0CF FA?type=worldNews&storyID=2153935)