Three-person international crew launched into space

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THREE-PERSON INTERNATIONAL CREW LAUNCHED INTO SPACE
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched as scheduled Tuesday to ferry two NASA
astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station,
boosting the lab's crew from three to six. Liftoff occurred at 5:35 p.m.
EDT (2135 GMT) from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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SPACE SENSOR COAXED TO LIFE FOLLOWING BLEAK TROUBLES
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Calling it a miracle recovery after early troubles left engineers
wondering if the instrument could ever be activated, scientists have
unveiled the first picture from the Solar X-ray Imager aboard the nation's
newest weather satellite.

http://spaceflightnow.com/delta/d348/100615sxi/


DNEPR ROCKET LAUNCHES ON MISSION FOR FRANCE, SWEDEN
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A Soviet-era ballistic missile blasted off from southern Russia on Tuesday
with a French spacecraft to observe the sun and a Swedish experiment to
demonstrate orbital formation flying with two satellites.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/15dnepr/


RESEARCH SATELLITE ORBITED BY CHINESE LAUNCHER
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China successfully shot a scientific research satellite into orbit on a
Long March rocket Monday, marking the country's fourth space launch of the
year.

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1006/15longmarch/


THIS WEEK IN SPACE
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Japan's robotic roundtrip mission to visit an asteroid beats the odds and
returns home, South Korea's new rocket has a bad day and Mars rover Spirit
produces another discovery.

http://spaceflightnow.com/twis/


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