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The
Soyuz TMA-9
mission on the
Soyuz rocket
launches from the
Baikonur Cosmodrome
in
Kazakhstan
, September 18, 2006 carrying a new crew to the
International Space Station
. The spaceflight was the first time since before the
Columbia
accident
that twelve humans have been in space simultaneously; three aboard the
International Space Station
(
Expedition 13
), three aboard Soyuz TMA-9, and six aboard
Space Shuttle
Atlantis
, flying mission
STS-115
. The observer in the lower right gives a distorted sense of scale because the rocket is actually 46.1 metres (151.2 ft) tall, although it appears to be much smaller here.
Photo credit: Bill Ingalls,
NASA
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