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A gathering of the team around coffee and donuts on a beautiful, sunny morning sets the start of the day's departure. |
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Leonid Gribachev (left), manager of the rocket operations complex, and Dr. Valery Aliev (center), head of rocket operations, chat with a colleague. |
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Longshoremen remove the gangplank and then the lines are let go and... she eases away from the pier. |
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As the traditional Russian departure music blares through the PA system, the national flags come out in proud display. |
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The Odyssey slowly pulls out of port, passes by the Payload Processing Facility and heads out of the harbor.
(Sea Launch photos by Paula Korn) |
