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Questions regarding the takeoff or the liftoff phase of the flight of a rocket and the set of activities required for preparation of the launch vehicle leading to it.

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Early high-inclination crewed flights

You can lift the most payload by going into an inclination that equals your launch latitude. ISS ended up at 57 deg., so Shuttle flights needed to launch close to that to be able to rendezvous. … Early Soviet launch vehicles had limited or no capability to gimbal the engines, so would set azimuth by rotating the entire stack on the launch pad. …
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