U.S.-Russian crew blasts off to space station

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A U.S.-Russian crew blasted off in a Russian Soyuz space ship on Friday for a half-year mission aboard the International Space Station. U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko lifted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as planned at 0404 GMT (12:04 a.m. ET), a spokesman for Mission Control said.

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