Multinational crew blasts off for iss

Dec 23, 2011 |

Reuters

A trio of astronauts blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket on Wednesday on a mission to bring the International Space Station back up to full manpower after an August cargo launch accident disrupted flights.
The rocket carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Nasa astronaut Don Pettit and the European Space Agency’s Andre Kuipers lifted off at 8.16 am under freezing conditions at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, a Nasa Television broadcast showed.
The all-veteran crew was scheduled to reach the orbital outpost at 10.22 am on Friday.

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Anita Ekberg, the Swedish 1960s blond bombshell who famously cavorted in Rome’s Trevi Fountain in the 1960 Federico Fellini classic La Dolce Vita is destitute and asking for help.
Ekberg, 80, has been living in a care home near Rome for the past three months after she broke her thighbone in a fall. She hasn’t returned to her apartment which was robbed of furniture and jewellery.
A fire has rendered it unfit for habitation, according to accountant Massimo Morais who was appointed to help manage her affairs. Morais has written to the Fellini Foundation of Rimini appealing for financial help.
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