US 'space tourist' blasts off aboard Soyuz (update)

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Greg Olsen gives the thumbs-up sign prior to the launch of the Soyuz rocket
A Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur space centre in Kazakhstan early Saturday, taking American "space tourist" Greg Olsen and his fellow astronauts, a Russian and another American, off towards the International Space Station.


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