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September 26, 2013

New space crew joins ISS on Olympic torch mission
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sept 26, 2013
An American and two Russians Thursday boarded the International Space Station after a lightning journey from Earth, on a mission that will see the Olympic torch for the 2014 Sochi Games taken into space for the first time. Michael Hopkins of NASA and Oleg Kotov and Sergei Ryazansky of Russia blasted off without a hitch from the Baikonur space centre that Moscow leases from Central Asia's ex-Soviet republic of Kazakhstan. Their Soyuz-TMA-10M capsule docked successfully with the ISS just six hours ... read more

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