The Soyuz MS-01 spacecraft launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome with Expedition 48-49 crewmembers Kate Rubins of NASA, Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos and Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) onboard, 7 July 7 2016, Kazakh time (July 6 EST), Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Rubins, Ivanishin, and Onishi spent approximately four months on the orbital complex, returning to Earth in October 2016. A unique, digitally optimised version of a NASA image by senior NASA photographer Bill Ingalls / credit: NASA

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Location: Kazakhstan, Baikonur Cosmodrome
Photo credit: © NASA / digitaleye / Alamy / Afripics
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