3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - The Russia's Soyuz TMA-17, carrying three astronauts -- Japan's Soichi Noguchi, Timothy J. Creamer of the United States and Russia's Oleg Kotov -- flies into the clouds after being launched from Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Dec. 21, 2009. The spacecraft successfully reached orbit shortly after liftoff.

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