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Billionaire Clown Heads to Space Station

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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (Sept. 30) - A Canadian circus tycoon, an American astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off in a spacecraft from the Kazakh steppe Wednesday on a journey to the International Space Station.
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