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Saturday, May 17, 2014

Unmanned Russian space rocket breaks apart mid-launch before crashing back to Earth


An unmanned Russian rocket carrying a satellite broke up and crashed back down to Earth shortly after its launch on Friday.

The Proton-M type booster rocket was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 0142 Moscow time (2142 GMT on Thursday).

But an "emergency situation" prevented it going into orbit, Russian space agency Roscosmos said.

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