3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

3 astronauts including Japan's Noguchi lift off from Kazakhstan

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Keiji Tachikawa, president of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, speaks to reporters at the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21, 2009, after seeing the successful launch of Russia's Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft carrying Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi and two others.

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