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US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
November 14, 2011

A Russian spacecraft carrying an American and two Russians blasted off successfully Monday from the Kazakh steppes on a mission to the International Space Station. Read the report on the New York Times.

A US-Russia crew would have been unthinkable a few decades ago. Read: The US-Russia race for space and President John F Kennedy's decision to go to the moon.

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