Feb 9 2000
From The Space Library
Russia successfully launched a Soyuz Test rocket equipped with a Fregat accelerator unit able to carry payloads into high orbit, but lost the Fregat unit upon its reentry to Earth. The rocket took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying only a dummy payload into space, in a test that was part of Russia's ongoing research into developing vehicles and technologies that would eventually serve the orbiting ISS.
More than 10,000 white-collar workers walked off the job at the Boeing Company, in protest over failed contract negotiations. Most of the strikers came from the aerospace giant's work site in Seattle, Washington.
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