Russian spaceship blasts off with first S.Korean astronaut
China Daily | Updated: 2008-04-09 07:31
A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying Republic of Korea's (ROK) first astronaut yesterday blasted off into space from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The Soyuz TMA-12 spaceship disappeared into a clear sky as planned at 1116 GMT after lifting off from the world's oldest space launch pad, used by Russia's Yuri Gagarin when he became the first human in space in 1961.
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