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Russian Satellite Booster Crashes

Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) visited Baikonur in June (epa)

July 27, 2006 -- A Russian rocket carrying 18 satellites has crashed back down to Earth shortly after liftoff.

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July 27, 2006

The Dnepr rocket, which took off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, was carrying what would have been Belarus's first ever satellite.

Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka was at Baikonur to witness the launch.

(AP, AFP, ITAR-TASS, Interfax)

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