A Soyuz rocket blasted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan carrying an Emirati who will make history as the first Arab on the International Space Station.
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Source:
https://phys.org/news/2019-09-rocket-emirati-russian-american-blasts.html