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  • International crew set for launch to space station Sunday

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    STORY WRITTEN FOR CBS NEWS “SPACE PLACE” & USED WITH PERMISSION The Soyuz TMA-15M crew at the Baikonur Cosmodrome (left to right): NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov and ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. Credit: NASA In clear but frigid weather, Russian engineers hauled a Soyuz rocket to the launch pad Friday, setting the…

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    Riding a specialized railroad car before dawn Friday, a Soyuz rocket rolled out of a cavernous assembly building and arrived at its launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for liftoff Sunday with American, Russian and Italian crew members heading for the International Space Station. The three-person crew, led by Soyuz commander Anton Shkaplerov,…