May 31 1989
From The Space Library
The Soviet Union successfully launched a Proton launch vehicle carrying three satellites from the Baikonur launch facility m Kazakhstan. The Proton was carrying the Cosmos 2,022, 2,023 and 2,024 satellites. The Tass News Agency reported that the third stage of the booster failed to burn up completely in the atmosphere and that unburned fragments may have fallen to Earth in the U.S.-Canadian border region near International Falls, Minnesota. (SSR 1989 039A-H; UPI, June 2/89; AP, June 2/89; LA Times, June 3/89)
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