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| - During the GLA War, the GLA captured Baikonur Cosmodrome and a supply of Soyuz rockets. A rocket on the launch pad was loaded with bio-chemical weapons and launched against a city with deadly effect. Even after their defeat at Akmola, the GLA continued to hold Baikonur. Another Soyuz with bio-chemical weapons was launched at a US military base in Northern Europe. The GLA planned to follow up with another launch but the train delivering the next rocket was captured by US forces and used to infiltrate the Cosmodrome. The GLA were removed from the launch site and the launch aborted.
- The launcher for the Soyuz rocket was first introduced in 1966 by a British undergraduate, Simon Jones, at Cambridge when he intended to make a firework to celebrate the World Cup victory. A Russian KGB agent approached him the next day and recruited him to be a Russian spy (as was the trend for Cambridge students at the time). Jones handed over the rocket design to the KGB agent along with the secret of how to oppress the under classes.
- The Soyuz vehicles are used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program, as well as to launch unmanned Progress supply spacecraft to the International Space Station and for commercial launches marketed and operated by Starsem and Arianespace. All Soyuz rockets use RP-1 and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellant, with the exception of the Soyuz-U2, which used Syntin, a variant of RP-1, with LOX. The Soyuz spacecraft is intended to be replaced by the six-person Prospective Piloted Transport System. Use by Howard to go to the ISS.
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| - The Soyuz vehicles are used as the launcher for the manned Soyuz spacecraft as part of the Soyuz program, as well as to launch unmanned Progress supply spacecraft to the International Space Station and for commercial launches marketed and operated by Starsem and Arianespace. All Soyuz rockets use RP-1 and liquid oxygen (LOX) propellant, with the exception of the Soyuz-U2, which used Syntin, a variant of RP-1, with LOX. The launcher was introduced in 1966, deriving from the Vostok launcher, which in turn was based on the 8K74 or R-7a intercontinental ballistic missile. It was initially a three-stage rocket with a Block I upper stage. On the first manned flight Soyuz 1, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov lost his life during a descent accident. The production of Soyuz launchers reached a peak of 60 per year in the early 1980s. It has become the world's most used space launcher, flying over 1700 times, far more than any other rocket. It is a very old basic design, but is notable for low cost and very high reliability, both of which appeal to commercial clients. Between February 1, 2003 and July 26, 2005 with the grounding of the US Space Shuttle fleet, Soyuz was the only means of transportation to and from the International Space Station. This included the transfer of supplies, via Progress spacecraft, and crew changeovers. Now that the Space Shuttle fleet is retired, the American space program is without any means to boost men into orbit, and NASA is entirely dependent on the Soyuz to send crew into space for the immediate future. The main payload for the Soyuz Rocket is a series of spacecraft initially designed for the Soviet space program by the Korolyov Design Bureau in the 1960s, and still in service today. The first unmanned Soyuz mission was launched November 28, 1966; the first Soyuz mission with a crew (Soyuz 1) was launched April 23, 1967, but the cosmonaut on board, Vladimir Komarov, died during the flight's crash-landing. Soyuz 2 was an unmanned mission, and Soyuz 3, launched on October 26, 1968, was the first successful Soyuz manned mission. The only other fatal mission, Soyuz 11, killed the crew of three also during re-entry due to premature cabin depressurization. Despite these early fatalities, Soyuz is presently widely considered the world's safest, most cost-effective human spaceflight system as demonstrated by its unparalleled length of operational history. Soyuz spacecraft were used to carry astronauts to and from Salyut and later Mir Soviet space stations, and are now used for transport to and from the International Space Station (ISS).At least one Soyuz spacecraft is docked to ISS at all times for use as an escape craft in the event of an emergency. The Soyuz spacecraft is intended to be replaced by the six-person Prospective Piloted Transport System. Use by Howard to go to the ISS.
- During the GLA War, the GLA captured Baikonur Cosmodrome and a supply of Soyuz rockets. A rocket on the launch pad was loaded with bio-chemical weapons and launched against a city with deadly effect. Even after their defeat at Akmola, the GLA continued to hold Baikonur. Another Soyuz with bio-chemical weapons was launched at a US military base in Northern Europe. The GLA planned to follow up with another launch but the train delivering the next rocket was captured by US forces and used to infiltrate the Cosmodrome. The GLA were removed from the launch site and the launch aborted.
- The launcher for the Soyuz rocket was first introduced in 1966 by a British undergraduate, Simon Jones, at Cambridge when he intended to make a firework to celebrate the World Cup victory. A Russian KGB agent approached him the next day and recruited him to be a Russian spy (as was the trend for Cambridge students at the time). Jones handed over the rocket design to the KGB agent along with the secret of how to oppress the under classes. The design was taken to the Russian Space Federation's mission control, located in a bunker under the Kremlin, and the rocket was built to be able to store five nuclear warheads and be fired across whole continents. The rocket was then test-fired on Prague in 1968 to prevent an uprising against the Warsaw pact. Brezhnev claimed that he had used tanks instead to kill all the rebelious peasants as to appease the Americans as tanks are much more humane killing machines than missiles. It was used in 1968-1969 to send up a man to the Moon as part of the Space Race. The Russians were still confused on what the target was in the Space Race as they thought they had won it by sending the first man in to space but now the Americans claimed that it was not over. Therefore the Russians built the rocket to be able to fly to Mars just in case the Americans after landing on the Moon made that the target. In April 1969 Russia launched Soyuz-R7 that would send the first man to Mars. It had two Russians on board who were to land the rocket on the surface and jump out to plant the Russian flag. The Russians achieved the landing on Mars, got out, planted the flag and claimed that the Space Race was over. However the Americans complained and they were disqualification for cheating by the UN on the grounds that the objective was to land the first man on the Moon and not Mars. Therefore the Russian Mars landings were invalid and even today the Western governments deny its existence. Since then due to a poor Communist influenced economy the main rocket for the Russians has never been replaced and the same rocket is reused for each mission to keep costs low. in 1975 the Soyuz rocket and the American Apollo Rocket met up in space resulting in a huge explosion as the two missiles collided with each other. This had a huge impact on improving relations in the Cold War as it stopped both Moscow and Washington, D.C. from being obliterated.
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