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Russia also used to launch french guiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_at_the_Guiana_Space_Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_at_the_Guiana_Spac

by a3w 2y ago

Russia also used to launch french guiana. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_at_the_Guiana_Space_Centre https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soyuz_at_the_Guiana_Space_Cent... Was nice having world peace from a NATO's point of view in 2011-2013. Russian launches continued till third wave of Ukraine territory conflicts in 2022, says wikipedia.

oskarkk 2y ago
The nice thing is that even today, some American astronauts are flying to the ISS from Russia on Russian rockets, and some Russian astronauts are flying from the USA on American rockets. They're doing that for redundancy of getting their people to space, and for the general cooperation.