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Second space tourist blasts off on $20 million Baikonur ride
Mark Shuttleworth, the 28 year old South African Internet magnate, launches aboard Soyuz TM 34 from Baikonur with Yuri Gidzenko and Roberto Vittori on a 10 day mission to the International Space Station. The crew, dubbed Marco Polo, aims to dock with the station and return with a fresh lifeboat Soyuz.
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Baikonur
Kazakhstan
Mark Shuttleworth
South Africa
Soviet Union
Shuttleworth
Yuri Gidzenko
Roberto Vittori
Moscow
Vladimir Solovyov
Mission Control
Lawrie
Nelson Mandela
Vittori
Gidzenko
Marco Polo
Space Station