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https://twitter.com/x/status/1750174735042810291

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1750234234541785545

 

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... and we thought SLS was slow...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1742185695223923055

https://twitter.com/x/status/1772609556767498463

 

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24h delay

https://twitter.com/x/status/1777622409970880639

 

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Another delay

https://twitter.com/x/status/1777985283603984391

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1778238974668009625

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778339179723641312

 

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10 minutes to go!

Live streams (russian):
(regular)

("technical")

 

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T0, liftoff!

 

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So far so good!
(clearly the sound is fake... 60km up and it sounds like it did at liftoff)

 

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Side cores separated!

 

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2º stage ignition and fairing separation!
Almost 13000km/h and 157km up.

 

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2º (or 3º) stage separation!

 

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Lots of people already at the pad, shown before the live streams ended.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1778352337125335330

 

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The dummy payload made it!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1778479782260330531

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1818667538575745300

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1819032896281145669

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819038532737937897

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1835948229835247720

https://twitter.com/x/status/1836032981896450104

After a decade, this is only the 2º time they launch 2 in the same year.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1819032896281145669

https://twitter.com/x/status/1819038532737937897

Although the tweets are quite old, I think Sergei Krikalev is one of the few cosmonauts who went to space as a Soviet citizen and then returned to Earth to get the Russian citizenship.

 

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https://twitter.com/x/status/1839645615111983169

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839645621894230470

https://twitter.com/x/status/1839645629087387855