Russia's space program is on shaky ground.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)

From: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service | Date: March 22, 1995| Author: | Copyright information

BAIKONUR COSMODROME, Kazakhstan _ The biggest rocket in the world looks like a baby bottle for the gods. Longer than a football field, more powerful than America's own Saturn 5, it was a multimillion-dollar triumph of Soviet space technology when it was finished in 1989. Now it is turning into scrap.

The Energia rocket is stored in a frigid warehouse, littered with cigarette butts, where the chill winds of the Kazakh steppe rattle the broken windows. In what was once an impenetrable secret compound, paint peels from the walls in sheets and a cat roams near the rows of surplus ...

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