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Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko, and South Korean spaceflyer So-yeon Yi pulled in at the station aboard their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft, which docked with the outpost’s Earth-facing Pirs module at about 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 GMT). The...
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