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- n the launching of a missile or spacecraft to a specified destination
- Exactly 23 hours and 32 minutes after Nikolaev's blastoff, just as he was breaking Titov's record by completing his 18th orbit, Moscow announced triumphantly that a second .
- A month before the Apollo 8 blastoff, British Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell lashed out against the mission.
- Rain threatened to scrub the mission until 31 hours before blastoff.