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September 26, 2014

Crew including first woman cosmonaut in 17 years blasts off for ISS
Baikonur, Kazakhstan (AFP) Sep 26, 2014
A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, including the first woman cosmonaut in 17 years, blasted off on schedule Friday, Russian mission control said. The Soyuz-TMA14M spacecraft took off at 12:25 am Moscow time (2025 GMT Thursday) from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to start the journey to the International Space Station (ISS). "The Soyuz-FG space rocket successfully launched to put the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft into orbit," the Russi ... read more

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