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New international space station crew blasts off

Soyuz TMA-22

08:23 14/11/2011

BAIKONUR, November 14 (RIA Novosti)

Tags: Baikonur space center, International Space Station, Anatoly Ivanishin, Anton Shkaplerov, Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Russia

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Preparation for launching Soyuz TMA-22 spaceship at Baikonur space center

A Soyuz-FG rocket carrier with a new crew for the International Space Station (ISS) aboard has blasted off from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan.

Three new members to the ISS, Russian cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, as well as NASA astronaut Daniel Burbank, lifted off as scheduled on board their Soyuz TMA-22 capsule.

The crew should dock with the ISS on November 16 at 9:33 a.m. Moscow time (05:33 GMT).

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