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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.
The first manned Soyuz flight since a failed launch in October successfully docks at the International Space Station. IMAGES
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-19 spacecraft carrying actress Yulia Peresild, director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov approaches the International Space Station (ISS). They are docking at the ISS in a bid to best the United States and film the first movie in space. IMAGES
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