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Members of the media photograph the Soyuz rocket as it launches with crew members, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS to the International Space Station (ISS) on Oct. 23, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan.
Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin will be on a five-month mission aboard the ISS.
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A Proton-M carrier rocket with the YahSat 1B telecommunications satellite aboard, blasts off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on April 24, 2012. The Russian carrier rocket successfully launched the satellite built by Astrium/Thales Alenia Space consortium for the Al Yah Satellite Communications Company of United Arab Emirates, the RIA Novosti news agency reported
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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama, their daughters Sasha and Malia, and Astronaut Janet Kavandi, walk under the landing gear from beneath the nose of Space Shuttle Atlantis as they visit Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Friday, April 29, 2011.
After touring the devastation left in the wake of Alabama's tornadoes (read the full story here and see the unbelievable images in our slideshow here), President Obama and his family made the most of their visit to Cape Canaveral after the high-profile final launch of the space shuttle Endeavour was delayed due to a problem with a heater in an auxiliary power unit.
Click here to read more about the launch delay.
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Space Shuttle Discovery viewed from the rocket garden at the Kennedy Space Center visitor complex, lifts off on its last mission from Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, 24 February 2011. The six astronauts will fly on the last flight of Shuttle Discovery in the space program to the International Space Station.
Space Shuttle Discovery is on its way to the International Space Station (which, by the way, tops this Wikipedia list of the world's most expensive single objects). If your skies are clear over the next day or so, you might be able to look up and see the shuttle approach the ISS. To figure out when and where to look, try this site.
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