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Russian spacecraft launching crew to ISS

19 December 2012 17:03 (UTC+04:00)
Russian spacecraft launching crew to ISS

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft, with a crew of three men, is due to blast off on Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), Radio Liberty reported.

On board will be Russian pilot Roman Romanenko, American Thomas Marshburn, and the Canadian Space Agency's Chris Hadfield.

Plans call for them to stay at the space station for the next five months, carrying out two spacewalks and working on experiments in the orbiting laboratory.

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