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WASHINGTON, July 14 (Reuters) – Russia launched two \u2060cosmonauts \u2060and an American astronaut \u2060to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, \u200bresuming crewed flights from a recently repaired launchpad with a rare joint \u200cattendance by the heads of \u200cNASA and Russia’s space agency.<\/p>\n

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U.S. astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts \u2060Pyotr Dubrov \u2060and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome aboard \u200bRussia’s Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1447 GMT), bound for the ISS, where they will spend about eight months as the station’s 75th \u200brotation crew.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The crew and their Soyuz spacecraft were placed into orbit \u2060some 10 \u2060minutes later, beginning a \u2060roughly \u200bthree-hour orbital trek to the football field-sized space laboratory ahead of docking \u200bat 1:56 p.m. \u2060EDT.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman traveled to Baikonur for meetings with Roscosmos director Dmitry Bakanov and to watch the launch, the first visit to Russia’s launch pad by a NASA chief since 2018. Tensions over \u2060the Russia-Ukraine war had largely prevented Bill Nelson, former President Joe \u2060Biden’s NASA chief, from such talks.<\/p>\n

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The Expedition 75 mission was the first spaceflight for Menon, 49. Isaacman, a billionaire private astronaut, flew on a SpaceX capsule in 2024 with Menon’s wife, SpaceX engineer Anna Menon, and two others in the Polaris Dawn mission, a private spacewalking voyage funded by Isaacman.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The last time Russia launched a crew out of Baikonur Cosmodrome’s Site \u206031, the rocket badly damaged the historic launchpad, knocking Moscow’s only crew-capable launch site out of service amid months of repairs. Russia resumed launches from the pad in March with \u200ban uncrewed ISS cargo mission.<\/p>\n

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(Reporting by Joey Roulette; Editing \u200bby Chizu Nomiyama and Sanjeev Miglani)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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