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Soyuz rocket blasts off from French Guiana It took Gagarin and Sputnik into space, and has flown safely over 1700 times: Soyuz is over 60 years old, but it begins a new tropical chapter this autumn with its first flight from the European Spaceport in French Guyana.
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