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Russian Rocket With Three Crew Blasts Off Into SpaceBaikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Dec 15, 2010 A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a crew of three to the International Space Station blasted off Wednesday from Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-20 rocket, with a Russian, an Italian and an American aboard, took off in the night sky at 10:09 pm Moscow time (1909 GMT). It lifted off on schedule from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the Kazakh steppe, spitting out a plume of fire and smoke and disappearing into the star-lit sky, an AFP correspondent reported. ... read more |
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