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Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano, left, and Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin before the launch of the Soyuz carrier rocket with the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft at Baikonur Cosmodrome.
- Categories: Science & Technology
- Location: Baikonur, Kazakhstan
- Event date: 28.05.2013
- Date published: 29.05.2013
- Author: Kirill Kudryavtcev
- Credit: Sputnik
- Source: POOL AFP
- Original: Digital
- Media: JPEG, 3681x2454px, 2.7Mb