US tourist blasts off on second space mission

US tourist blasts off on second space mission

Agence France-Presse
Simonyi along with American and Russian astronauts were launched aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket at 11:49 GMT from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, as Moscow doubles its launches to the International Space Station.
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