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09 Apr, 2008

It’s blastoff for South Korea’s first astronaut

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South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-yeon, left, and  Russian cosmonaut, commander Sergei Volkov, crew members of the 17th mission to the International Space Station (ISS) speak prior to the launch of their Soyuz-FG  rocket at the  Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 8, 2008. As a Russian Soyuz spacecraft rose into the bright blue sky Tuesday, spectators held their breaths, South Koreans celebrated their first astronaut and the astronaut’s mother fainted.


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