Nasa astronaut gets prepared for blast-off
Technicians at a space centre in Kazakhstan have hoisted a rocket on to its initiate pad ahead of Friday's blast-off. 
A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts will be within and will travel to the International Space Station.
NASA's Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russians Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko are to flash off at 10.04am (0404 GMT) Friday for their six-month mission in the orbiting science lab.
Workers at the craft's storage shelter slid open the gate just before daybreak on Wednesday and mounted the Soyuz rocket on a flatbed train for slow transportation to the launch site.
Armed police with sniffer dogs walked ahead of the train and a helicopter circled overhead amid heightened defense following the Moscow subway bombings, which killed dozens of people.
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