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davf
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I was looking through Google Earth the other day and noticed they had updated some of their imagery at Baikonur. Having toured the site in '95, I was interested in seeing the buildings I had observed from the ground. One of the more depressing scenes was of the roof cave-in at the Energia assembly building. This is a HUGE building and composed of many bays. The reports of the cave-in that I had seen simply mentioned 'roof cave-in' but hadn't mentioned the scale. It's almost hard to believe that it took in the entire high-bay area roof.<br /><br />Anyway, I thought I'd post some pics from Google Earth, a couple from the newspaper article at the time of the cave-in, and a few that I took with everything intact in case anyone else might find it as interesting as I did.