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On the morning of October 5, 1957, one of those cleverly terse press releases – a specialty of TASS, the Soviet news agency – introduced the R-7 launch vehicle to the collective imagination of the 20th century:
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Lardier, C., Barensky, S. (2013). A fantasy launcher. In: The Soyuz Launch Vehicle. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-5459-5_7
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