APTOPIX RUSSIA KAZAKHSTAN SPACE

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APTOPIX RUSSIA KAZAKHSTAN SPACE
Hungarian-born U.S. software designer and space tourist Charles Simonyi, crew member of the 19th mission to the International Space Station, ISS, waves prior the launch of a Soyuz-FG rocket at the Russian leased Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Thursday, March 26, 2009. The Russian-American team set to blast off to the international space station said that doubling the station's permanent crew will make life more cramped but will further scientific research. Russian commander Gennady Padalka and American flight engineer Michael Barratt are to be part of the new six-person crew aboard the station, which previously has had three people aboard long-term. (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)