81.   Russia decided a year ago to construct the new cosmodrome in the Amur region to ease its dependence on Baikonur, the main launch site during Soviet times.

82.   Russian and Australian defense companies have signed a deal to send low-orbit telecommunications satellites into space using Russian rockets from an Outback launch site.

83.   Russian space officials expect to more or less complete the service module next month and ship it from Moscow to the launch site in Kazakstan.

84.   Signs at the launch site remind users of the alcohol ban, and prohibitions on water guns and loud radios.

85.   The Baikonur cosmodrome was built by the Soviet Union as its primary launch site.

86.   The Baikonur launch site that sent up the first piece of an international space station Friday was showered with money and glory during the Soviet era.

87.   Take off from the Swiss launch site will be on Wednesday morning.

88.   The accident could also revive tensions between Kazakhstan and Russia, which leases the launch site.

89.   Ten outfitters in and around Valentine shuttle people to the launch sites.

90.   The capsule was attached to a mobile crane and wheeled to the launch site.