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New Space Station Crew Launched from Baikonur The International Space Station Expedition 11 crew -- Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev and Astronaut John Phillips -- launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:46 pm EDT Thursday, right on schedule. Soyuz is scheduled to dock with the ISS at 10:19 pm EDT April 16.Their Soyuz TMA capsule reached orbit a little less than nine minutes after liftoff. Russian flight controllers reported the spacecraft`s solar arrays had deployed as scheduled, and that all appeared normal.
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