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One down, two to go. Russia inches closer to putting a crew on Soyuz while celebrating 50 years since the first Return To Flight

One down, two to go. Russia inches closer to putting a crew on Soyuz while celebrating 50 years since the first Return To Flight

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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/29/china_russia_soyuz_at_50/

While the Hubble Space Telescope gingerly spun its gyros back to life, China and Russia were busy lighting the business ends of rockets with varying levels of success in this week's round-up.

Russia returned its troubled Soyuz booster to flight last week with a successful launch of a Lotos reconnaissance satellite on Thursday at 0015 UTC.