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First Korean astronaut blasts off

by Eddie French | April 9, 2008 at 05:43 am | 134 views | add comment
South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon blasted off into space on Tuesday, prompting her mother, apparently overwhelmed by the occasion, to scream and fall to the ground.

In another historic first, one of her fellow cosmonauts, Sergei Volkov, followed in the footsteps of his father, celebrated Russian cosmonaut Alexander Volkov, the two forming the first space dynasty.

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April 9, 2008 at 05:43 am by Eddie French, 134 views, add comment

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