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Soyuz rocket launches from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan with
Expedition 12 Commander William S. McArthur, Jr., Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery I. Tokarev and U.S. Spaceflight Participant Gregory Olsen aboard. The trio is on a mission to the international space station lasting six months for McArthur and Tokarev. Olsen will return after ten days in space under a commercial contract with the Russian Federal Space Agency.
The NASA website hosts a large number of images from the
Soviet/
Russian space agency, and other non-American space agencies. These are not necessarily in the public domain.
The
SOHO (ESA & NASA) joint project implies that all materials created by its probe are copyrighted and require permission for commercial non-educational use.
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