Foton-M3 Mission Underway With Microgravity Payloads
Credit: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE
Russia’s Foton-M3 robotic recoverable capsule, crammed with life sciences and other microgravity experiments, is due to parachute back to Earth Sept. 26 following this successful Sept. 14 liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (see photo). The Soyuz-U rocket carried the 6,500-kg. (14,330...
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