Russian Satellite Booster Crashes
July 27, 2006
Russian President Vladimir Putin (right) visited Baikonur in June (epa)
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)