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Russia Today has a story looking back at the history of the Soyuz-U rocket, on the occasion of its final launch. According to the story, the Soyuz-U has flown either 788 or 789 times, the first mission taking place in 1973 when it was used to loft "a Soviet military surveillance satellite" and the most recent carrying
[...] the Progress MS-05, a freighter carrying 2.5 tons of miscellaneous cargo – fuel, food, water, sanitation, oxygen and air, as well as spare parts, supplies and experiment hardware – to the International Space Station (ISS).
The story calls it "the longest-serving rocket in history."
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(Score: 1) by butthurt on Thursday February 23 2017, @07:57PM
Oh, RT is propagandistic--I said so explicitly in my submission. But the quotation marks merely indicate that those are a few of RT's exact words, not enough to merit a block quote. The story, as far as I know, is factual.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Friday February 24 2017, @02:37AM
Yeah. If I wanted to make it scare-quotey, I would instead write:
The story calls it the "longest-serving" rocket in history.
or better yet:
The story calls it the longest-serving "rocket" in history.
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