Russia Launches a Manned Rocket in a Snowstorm

baikonur spacecraft launch
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Final Stage
The Soyuz TMA-22 spacecraft stands atop a launch pad in the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome, early on November 14, 2011, shortly before the launch.

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