Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/2008 Fortnight 14
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![Delta II](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Delta_II_Dawn_liftoff_1.jpg/150px-Delta_II_Dawn_liftoff_1.jpg)
- …That it can take up to twenty minutes for communications from spacecraft on Mars to reach Earth?
- …That the Delta II rocket (pictured) is the most reliable carrier rocket currently in service?
- …That the Soviet Union ran two different space programmes with the name Prognoz, a scientific research programme, and a missile defence programme?