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The space craze that gripped Russia nearly 100 years ago

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Newspapers proclaimed that hundreds of starships would soon venture out into the cosmos. People dreamed of moon colonies that were just a few years away. Ordinary citizens organized competitions to build rockets to reach the edge of space.

Welcome to Russia in the 1920s.
via Wired

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Image: Stills from the movie Aelita

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