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                   New Three-Man Crew Flies to Space Station

   by VOA News

   A Russian Soyuz spacecraft blasted off from Kazakhstan early Saturday
   on its way to the International Space Station with a three-man crew
   including an astronaut about to break an American record.

   By the end of his six-month mission on the space station, Jeff Williams
   will have spent more accumulated time in space -- 534 days -- than any
   other astronaut in U.S. history.

   This is Williams' third time aboard the space station.

   He and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Alexey Ovchinin will join
   the three-man crew already in the station and will carry out hundreds
   of scientific and biological experiments.

   Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka holds the world record for the most
   days spent in space at 878.
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