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Three astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station, a successful launch that follows October's aborted mission. NASA astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled at 5:31 P.M. (1131 GMT) Monday from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Trio of astronauts blast off to International Space Station NASA astronauts of Canadian & Russian space agency A Soyuz-FG rocket carrying NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Alexei Ovchinin failed two minutes into its flight on Oct. 11, activating an automatic rescue system that sent their capsule into a steep ride back to Earth. A Russian investigation attributed the failure to a sensor that was damaged during the rocket's final assembly. Since the mishap, four successful Soyuz launches have been conducted to clear the path for the crew's launch. (AP)-
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