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KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA-US-ITALY-ISS-SPACE

Russia’s Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft carrying the International Space Station (ISS) crew of US astronaut Terry Virts, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov and European Space Agency’s Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti blasts off from the launch pad at Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome early on November 24, 2014. AFP PHOTO/KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV