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ESA astronaut flies Cervantes mission to ISS

18 October 2003

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The Soyuz TMA-3 booster rocket carrying American, Russian, and Spanish cosmonauts blasts off for the international space station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakstan, on Saturday, 18 October 2003. The American and Russian astronauts will be the station's new inhabitants, while Pedro Duque returns to Earth 10 days later with the station's current crew.

Credits: AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel

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On 17 October 2003, Cervantes mission crew during the press conference (Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazahkstan). From left to right: NASA astronaut Michael Foale, Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri and European astronaut Pedro Duque.

Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja 2003

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Credits: ESA 2003/Zigzag/M. Gallardo

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