A veteran Russian cosmonaut, a rookie Italian astronaut and an American mother on her second flight blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Tuesday for a six-hour ride to the International Space Station. The Russian Soyuz rocket lifted off at 4:31 p.m. EDT (2031 GMT), streaking through clear, pre-dawn skies in Kazakhstan as it headed into orbit, a NASA TV broadcast showed. In command of the Soyuz capsule was cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, 54, who ...
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