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Proton Satellite, Moscow, 1969

Proton Satellite, Moscow, 1969 (55.834418, 37.621398) CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

This model of the Proton hung inside the Cosmos Pavilion of the All-Russia Exhibition Centre. In the background, a Kosmos rocket and Vostok space craft are visible. Proton-1 and Proton-2 were identical satellites with identical scientific payloads. Here's <a href="http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/sats_n_data/missions/proton.html">a bit about them from NASA</a>.

Photo by my grandfather David C. Cook. Scanned from an unlabeled Kodachrome slide, dates tamped June 1969. Slide W4 9, in an unlabeled slide cartridge.

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