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A Russian spacecraft carrying a Japanese billionaire docks with the International Space Station, marking the country's return to space tourism after a decade-long pause that saw the rise of competition from the United States. Online fashion tycoon Yusaku Maezawa and his assistant Yozo Hirano blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin took just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
Moscow, Apr 9 (EFE), (Camera: Handout).- The Russian manned Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft safely docked on Friday with the International Space Station after its launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.The mission is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a man into space, carried out by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Apr. 12, 1961.INCLUDES VIDEO COURTESY OF NASA.
Moscow, Apr 9 (EFE), (Camera: Handout).- The Russian manned Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft safely docked on Friday with the International Space Station after its launch from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.The mission is dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the first flight of a man into space, carried out by Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on Apr. 12, 1961.INCLUDES VIDEO COURTESY OF NASA.
Russian Soyuz spacecraft undocks from International Space Station (ISS), before transporting back to Earth NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anton Shkaplerov. IMAGES
The Soyuz MS-17 vehicle with NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov aboard undocks from the International Space Station (ISS) as the crew begins its journey back to Earth. [COMPLETES VIDI9877HY_EN AND VIDI9877ND_EN] IMAGES
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