US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
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Crew members of the next expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), (L-R) US astronaut Kevin Ford, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin walk to a bus during a sending-off ceremony in the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome on October 23, 2012. The crew is to blast off for the International Space Station in a Russian Soyuz space craft. AFP PHOTO / VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO (Photo credit should read VYACHESLAV OSELEDKO/AFP/Getty Images)
