Japanese astronaut Furukawa leaves for space station

Japanese astronaut Furukawa leaves for space station

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Astronaut Satoshi Furukawa of Japan checks his spacesuit shortly before boarding a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on June 7, 2011 at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The spacecraft, carrying Furukawa, Sergey Volkov of Russia and Michael Fossum of the United States, headed for the International Space Station in the early hours of June 8.

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