Astronaut Gets Prepared For Blast-Off

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A NASA astronaut and 2 Russian cosmonauts will be inside and will travel to the International Space Station (ISS).

Tracy Caldwell Dyson from NASA and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko are to the blast off at 10.04am (0404 GMT) Friday for their 6-month mission in a orbiting science lab.

Workers at the craft's storage hangar slid open the gate just previous to daybreak on Wednesday and mounted the rocket on a flatbed train for slow transit to the launch site.

Armed police with sniffer dogs walked in front of the train and a helicopter circled overhead amid heightened security after the Moscow subway bombings, which killed dozens of people.

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