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The crews of the International Space Station mission Expedition 49-50 say their goodbyes after Russian cosmonaut Anatoli Ivanishin hands over command of the space station to NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough during a Change of Command ceremony. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
"All the ground teams really across the world made it easy on us to live and work onboard the ISS," astronaut Thomas Pesquet says during a change of command ceremony aboard the International Space Station. SOUNDBITE
Commander Terry Virts of NASA hands over command of the International Space Station to cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
China's Shenzhou-18 mission takes off from a launch centre in Jiuquan, in the northern Gansu province, carrying three astronauts to the country's Tiangong space station. The three are set to replace the space station's current crew and will remain in orbit around the Earth for six months. IMAGES
China sends a fresh crew to its Tiangong space station in the latest mission for a growing space programme that plans to send people to the Moon by 2030. The Shenzhou-17 blasted off from the Jiuquan launch site in arid northwest China at 11:14 am (0314 GMT) Thursday, carrying a three-astronaut team with the youngest average age since the space station's construction. IMAGES
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