Blastoff! Soyuz rocket launches US-Russian crew to space station
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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched NASA astronaut Don Pettit, Roscosmos cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Vagner to the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday (Sept. 11) at 12:23 p.m. EDT (1623 GMT; 9:23 p.m. local Baikonur time).