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Russia launches astronauts to space station

A Russian rocket carrying two Russian cosmonauts and an American astronaut blasted off on Tuesday for the International Space Station. Russia’s Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin and NASA’s Kevin Ford blasted off in a Soyuz TMA-06M space craft on schedule at 1051 GMT from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, an…

Russian cosmonauts begin ISS spacewalk

MOSCOW — Two Russian cosmonauts stepped out of the International Space Station on Thursday in a spacewalk due to last six hours, Russia’s mission control centre said. Oleg Kononenko and Anton Shkaplerov opened the door to the Pirs space module and began work on the exterior of the ISS, the…