Russia Launches a Manned Rocket in a Snowstorm

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Russian Space Agency experts help U.S. astronaut Dan Burbank get up after inspecting his space suit prior to the launch of a mission to the International Space Center in a rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, 14 November 2011. It is Burbank's first trip on a Soyuz spacecraft.

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