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From left to right on the left: Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers and NASA astronaut Donald Pettit arriver at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 08.12.2011
- Date published: 08.12.2011
- Author: Oleg Urusov
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: Sputnik
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 1584x2146px, 2.3Mb