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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by avmich on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @10:37PM (#8525199)
I think technically engines were manufactured in early '70s - like, in 1974? Definitely weren't stored in Siberia - Russia has quite sizable European part, no need to go to Siberia if you want to hide about 70 engines from nemesis Glushko's eye...
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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by readerrrr on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @11:12PM (#8525319)
They were stored in Samara, Russia. Maps say that is in Siberia.
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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by tanzam75 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @02:41AM (#8525880)
> They were stored in Samara, Russia. Maps say that is in Siberia.

Samara is not in Siberia. It is in the Volga Federal District, which is west of the Urals and therefore in European Russia.

In fact, Samara is 1000 miles away from Siberia. Even for Russia, that's still quite a distance.

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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by x4m on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @02:13AM (#8525827)
Samara is in european part of Russia. Siberia starts from Novosibirsk, it's about 2k miles to East from Samara.
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Re:Orbital Sciences Antares rocket explodes after liftoff by tanzam75 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @02:51AM (#8525896)
> Siberia starts from Novosibirsk, it's about 2k miles to East from Samara.

Omsk is in Siberia and it's only 1000 miles away from Samara.

Anyway, Los Angeles is not in Oregon, Moscow is not in Germany, and Samara is not in Siberia.

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