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Posted by timothy on Sunday May 12, 2002 @05:18PM from the ex-workers-paradise dept.

A user writes: "The roof of the 260-foot-tall Baikonur Cosmodrome collapsed today in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The hangar, used to store the Buran space shuttle (Russia's abandoned shuttle program), was built in the 1960s and used for the Soviet moon program. Could this delay the Buran auction? More can be found at Yahoo!."

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by QuodEratDemonstratum ( 569501 ) writes: on Sunday May 12, 2002 @05:26PM (#3507255) Homepage

Baikonur [russianspaceweb.com] looks like an enormous complex. Which of the dozens of buildings was it?

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