Zabolotye – Eye on the Arctic

In this Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014 file photo, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, third right, visits an assembly shop, with the Angara booster rocket at right, at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Plesetsk, northwestern Russia. The recent Angara A5 rocket launch failed and crashed near a near the village of Zabolotye in Arkhangelsk Oblast. (Alexander Astafyev/ Government Press Service/RIA-Novost/AP)

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Rocket fails, falls down near village in Russia’s North

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 13:44 — Last Updated: Thursday, April 23, 2015 at 19:04
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The launch of the experimental Angara A5 from the Plesetsk Space Center flops. The rocket landed near a local village. The