A 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.
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A 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.