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Soyuz rocket with Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of
the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineers Luca
Parmitano of the European Space Agency and Karen Nyberg of NASA,
onboard, launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to the
International Space Station. Yurchikhin, Nyberg and Parmitano will
remain aboard the station until mid-November, 2013.
Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls