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Three-person crew blasts off from Baikonur


Three-person crew blasts off from Baikonur Braving near-zero temperatures, a workhorse Soyuz rocket carrying a crew of three — a veteran cosmonaut, a NASA shuttle pilot and an Italian fighter pilot making her first space flight — vaulted into orbit Sunday, kicking off a six-hour rendezvous with the International Space Station. Launching almost directly into the plane of the station’s orbit, Soyuz TMA-15M commander Anton Shkaplerov, flanked on the left by European Space Agency flight engineer Samantha Cristoforetti and on the right by NASA astronaut Terry Virts, lifted off from complex 31 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:01 p.m. EST (GMT-5; 3:01 a.m. Monday local time).   More



(Source: SpaceFlight.com - Nov 23)

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