Crew blasts off for space station
The Soyuz craft is the only means for astronauts to reach the space station since the decommissioning of the U.S. shuttle fleet in 2011.
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Members of the next expedition to the International Space Station, U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford, left, and two Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky, center, and Evgeny Tarelkin, right, pose in front of St Basil's Cathedral, at the Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 25, 2012.
Credit: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel
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