Russian spacecraft carrying 3 astronauts lifts off

Russian spacecraft carrying 3 astronauts lifts off

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan - Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide waves as he heads to a rocket launch pad at a space center in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on July 15, 2012. A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying Hoshide, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and NASA astronaut Sunita Williams lifted off on a rocket at 8:40 a.m. the same day bound for the International Space Station.

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