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Russia Kazakhstan Space

Technicians and scientists assemble the Soyuz-TMA-15 rocket booster during final preparations in a hangar at Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sunday, May 24, 2009. Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium are the next crew scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station from Baikonur cosmodrome on a Russian made Souyz TMA 15 space craft on May 27.