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The horizontal transfer of Soyuz launchers at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana will follow the same basic procedures used for Soyuz operations at Baikonur Cosmodrome. Here, the Soyuz FG launcher and Soyuz TMA-15 spacecraft that lifted off from the cosmodrome on May 27 with a three-member crew for the International Space Station rolls out to the Site 1 pad at Baikonur.