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A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft due to launch on December 3, 2018, from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome. IMAGES
Mobile phones are a key part of many people's lives, but they're better left in your pocket if you find yourself at mass, right? One forward thinking priest tending to his flock on the Italian island of Sicily seems to think otherwise. Don Alessandro Palermo, a 30 year-old parish priest of the San Matteo church in Marsala, Sicily invited his faithful congregation to bring their smartphones to church so that he could bless the mobile devices.
Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, and American astronaut Loral O'Hara rocket toward the International Space Station as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise over Ukraine. The crew is expected to dock at the ISS three hours later. The launch comes after Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed last month. 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
From Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the Russian Soyuz 2.1B rocket blasts into space carrying 36 new satellites, from British operator OneWeb. IMAGES
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
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