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American aerospace giant Boeing launches its Starliner capsule for the International Space Station in a critical uncrewed test flight that follows years of failures and false starts. The Orbital Test Flight 2 (OFT-2) mission blasted off at 6:54 pm Eastern Time (2254 GMT) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with the spaceship fixed atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. IMAGES
Japanese tourists, relatives, friends, and members of Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa's team visit the launchpad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan where a Russian Soyuz rocket launch will send Maezawa and his production assistant Yozo Hirano to the International Space Station, marking Russia's return to space tourism after a decade-long pause that saw the rise of competition from privately held US companies. Their journey aboard the three-person Soyuz spacecraft piloted by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin will take just over six hours, capping a banner year that many have seen as a turning point for private space travel. IMAGES
The Russian Defence ministry shares images of Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Prichal -- which means "pier" in Russian -- is the second permanent addition to the Russian segment of the ISS this year, after the lond-awaited arrival of the Nauka lab module. IMAGES
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Prichal -- which means "pier" in Russian -- is the second permanent addition to the Russian segment of the ISS this year, after the lond-awaited arrival of the Nauka lab module. IMAGES
A rocket carrying 34 OneWeb broadband satellites takes off from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The company is competing against billionaires Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos in the race to provide fast internet for the world's remote areas via satellites. IMAGES
A Russian Proton-M rocket carrying the new Nauka laboratory module for the International Space Station blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Images released by Roscosmos show the carrier rocket taking off at 1458 GMT, taking into orbit the first Russian ISS module in 11 years. IMAGES
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