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Photos: Simonyi's ride on a Russian rocket

April 6, 2007 12:15 PM PDT

A closer look at the massive rocket engines. On his blog, Simonyi (at lower right here) wrote earlier this week: "It is always exciting to be near flight hardware, even when it is just an unmanned freighter. Everywhere there is an orderly chaos of fine tubes, red-painted temporary brackets, and black space cloth that is secured sometimes with wide strips of Velcro."

Photo by Charlesinspace.com

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