By the dawn of 1889, the Russian Empire was buzzing with anticipation. The grand vision of the Tsar’s space catapult had ignited a fire in the hearts of Russian engineers and scientists, who were driven by a singular purpose: to propel the Motherland into the cosmos. While the concept had taken shape, the path to its realization was fraught with technic…
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