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Russia’s Soyuz-2.1a rocket with manned spacecraft blasts off from Baikonur spaceport – TASS
The spacecraft will deliver Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International Space Station

BAIKONUR COSMODROME /Kazakhstan/, April 9. /TASS/. A Russian Soyuz-2.1a carrier rocket with a manned spacecraft named after Yuri Gagarin blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
The carrier rocket lifted off from Site 31 of the Baikonur spaceport (the Vostok launch pad) at 10:42 Moscow time. The spacecraft will deliver Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei to the International Space Station (ISS).
The manned spacecraft will be delivered into orbit in…
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