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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- U.S. millionaire scientist Gregory Olsen and an American-Russian crew hurtled toward the international space station Saturday on a Soyuz craft in a journey his family said was motivated by a devotion to science.
Relatives and friends of Olsen, astronaut William McArthur and cosmonaut Valery Tokarev gasped as the Russian craft lifted off in a burst of flame from the Baikonur cosmodrome and soared into the bright autumn sky over the steppes of Kazakhstan.See the full content of this document
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A $20 Million Ticket to Space Station
As the announcement came that the spacecraft had entered its initial designated orbit nine minutes after the launch, the crowd burst into applause.
The crew reported that all was well aboard the Soyuz TMA...See the full content of this document
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