Russia Launches a Manned Rocket in a Snowstorm

baikonur spacecraft launch
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Launch
Russia's Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, early on November 14, 2011. It is the first launch since NASA discontinued its 30-year shuttle program in July.

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