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The Soyuz-2.1a rocket booster and the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft is transported by train to the launch pad at the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. "The space rocket is now being installed into the launch system," says Sergei Savenkov, Deputy Chief Engineer at Roscosmos Test Center 1. The crew of Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and US astronaut Loral O’Hara is scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft on September 15. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES