8 years ago
Russia Lights It Rockets With a Giant Match
"Really!? Russians light up their rockets with a giant match?" This was a question from one of my Twitter followers who'd seen a photo of a culprit in the aborted launch attempt of a Russian Soyuz rocket Saturday, when mission control called the abort just moments before takeoff because of an ignition system problem. Indeed, even some seasoned space geeks were surprised to learn that contraptions fashioned out of birch trees into the shape of a broomstick are placed into the combustion chambers of every Soyuz rocket—including those carrying cosmonauts and astronauts.
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