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From right, U.S. astronaut William McArthur, Russian cosmonaut Valery Tokarev and U.S. space tourist Gregory Olsen speak to the media as they put on their space suits for checking at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Thursday, Sept. 22, 2005. They will blast off Oct. 1 from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz ship to the International Space Station. (KEYSTONE/AP Photo)