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We have liftoff: Russian Soyuz rockets new crew to space station, in pictures

A Soyuz FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft carrying the ISS Expedition 44/45 crew of NASA astronaut Kjell N. Lindgren, Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, and JAXA astronaut Kimiya Yui

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying a three-man crew bound for the International Space Station blasted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The 16-story rocket lifted off at 21:02 GMT to deliver veteran Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and rookie astronauts Kjell Lindgren with NASA and Japan's Kimiya Yui into orbit.

Picture: TASS / Barcroft Media
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