Crew of two lifts off on mission to rehab Russia's Mir

Two cosmonauts lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday on a 45-day mission to rehabilitate the aging Mir orbital station as a commercial outpost in space. Cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin, commander, and Alexander Kalery, flight engineer, lifted off in a Soyuz capsule atop a Soyuz rocket for the...

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