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A Russian Soyuz rocket launches from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan
Image: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP/picture alliance Image: Dmitri Lovetsky/AP/picture alliance

Soyuz

Their technical legacy stretches back to the first manned spaceflight in 1961, with Yuri Gagarin. Russia's Soyuz are the longest running family of spacecraft and still travel to and from the International Space Station.

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