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  • Russian Rocket Launch Ignites Killer Grass Fire

    Russian Rocket Launch Ignites Killer Grass Fire

    A large grass fire triggered by a Russian rocket launch on Wednesday has killed one Kazakh man and hospitalised another. According to the AFP, pieces of the rocket fell to Earth after it launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome — the site where Sputnik 1 took off in 1957. Incredibly, the debris set off a fire…