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| | Space Wing #3 |
 | | Soyuz capsule TM-8 flew to the Russian space station 'MIR', launching from the Baikonour Cosmodrome in the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic on September 5th, 1989 and returned on February 19th, 1990 in the Gobi desert, 55 kilometers to the northeast of Arkalyk, Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic, after 166 days in space. |
 | | This parachute was used during the descent of the re-entry Soyuz module, a capsule weighing in at over 17,000 pounds with 2 cosmonauts aboard! |
 | | Soyuz TM-32 launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 3:37am ET on April 28, 2001, carrying cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Yuri Baturin -- as well as the first "space tourist", American businessman Dennis Tito -- to the International Space Station. |
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