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Navy SEAL-doctor-astronaut lifts off with cosmonauts on Russian flight to ISS

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Jonny Kim , Sergey Ryzhikov and Alexey Zubritsky launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 8 .

Kim , a Navy SEAL, medical doctor and NASA astronaut, will join the Soyuz MS-27 crew.

Kim is the third Navy SEAL to become an astronaut, and all three will have now served on the International Space Station .

Soyuz MS-27 crew, led by commander Ryzhikov , is flying under the call sign " Favor " Soyuz is Russia 's 73rd spacecraft in its class to launch for the station since 2000 .

Crew insignia includes two nods to spaceflight anniversaries: 60 years since the world's first spacewalk in 1965 .

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