Soyuz spacecraft blasts off
Published: 27 March, 2009, 01:51
The Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian-American crew to the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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Published: 27 March, 2009, 01:51
The Soyuz space capsule carrying a Russian-American crew to the International Space Station was launched from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.