Abstract
After the press conference at mid-day on 20 April 1971, the Soyuz 10 cosmonauts and their backups went to Pad No. 1 to inspect the 50-metre-tall rocket, enclosed by its service structure. Also present were hundreds of engineers, technicians and the military who managed Baykonur launch operations. The tradition of this gathering had been established a decade earlier, when Gagarin had prepared to ride a similar rocket from the same pad to become the first man to orbit the Earth.
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(2008). The drama of the Granites. In: Salyut — The First Space Station. Springer Praxis Books. Praxis. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-73973-1_4
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