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Leonard David

Russia fixes launch pad damaged by Thanksgiving astronaut launch to the International Space Station

A rocket viewed from below, with five cone-shaped nozzles in the foreground.

Late last year, a Soyuz rocket launched three astronauts to orbit from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

But there was more "blast" to the Nov. 27 blastoff than intended. The launch damaged Site 31 at Baikonur, Russia's only active pad that supports crewed liftoffs to the International Space Station (ISS).

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