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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 22:12
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NASA astronaut Kevin Ford and Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin lifted off Tuesday on board Russia’s Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft for the International Space Station (ISS). The three launched off of Pad 6 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site 31, marking the first time in nearly three decades the pad has been used for human spaceflight. Riding with the crew are 32 live fish as part of a study into osteoporosis.
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