Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Note the Union Jack painted on the Soyuz rocket, Moscow had hoped for big UK sponsorship forthe launch, and was very cheesed off when it got none. I'd guess that I took this picture on 17th May 1991, when the USSR still had three months to go. — PolitiTweet.org
Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah
Oh, and this is the Soviet rocket which took Helen Sharman into orbit, here being trundled towards the launch pad a… https://t.co/YcxVQ0nrzk