A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying the new Prichal docking module for the International Space Station blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Prichal -- which means "pier" in Russian -- is the second permanent addition to the Russian segment of the ISS this year, after the lond-awaited arrival of the Nauka lab module.

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