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Last Updated: Thursday, 30 March 2006, 06:19 GMT 07:19 UK


      First Brazilian goes into space 


     
             
            Col Pontes had been in training for the flight since 1998 
      Lt Col Marcos Pontes has become the first Brazilian to go into space 
after a successful launch aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baykonur. 
      He will spend nine days on the International Space Station while a 
Russian and a US colleague accompanying him will stay for six months. 

      Col Pontes took with him a Brazilian flag and a football shirt - to help, 
he said, his team in the World Cup. 

      His father, 84, was at the launch with other relatives and friends. 

      They applauded and cheered afterwards, watching video from an onboard 
camera at the ex-Soviet base Russia leases in Kazakhstan. 

      "I am very emotional," said his wife Fatima, with tears in her eyes. 

      "I cannot even explain how I feel right now. I am very, very happy." 

      The launch was broadcast live on television in Brazil. 

      Vyacheslav Davidenko, spokesman for Russia's Roskosmos space agency, told 
AFP news agency that the new astronaut would undoubtedly become a national hero 
in Brazil. 

      "Marcos Pontes will allow his country to join the club of space powers," 
he said. 

      Space dream 

      Many Brazilians are hoping the trip will give a crucial morale boost to 
the country's own space programme, the BBC's Tom Gibb reports from Sao Paulo. 

             
            The International Space Station is not due to be completed until 
2010 

      The mission, which is costing Brazil about $10m (£6m), comes less than 
three years after Brazil's space programme met with disaster when a rocket 
exploded on the launch pad. 

      The explosion of the first Brazilian rocket built to take satellites 
killed 21 people at the site in the north of the country. 

      However, there has also been some criticism that the cost of putting a 
man into space could have been used better elsewhere. 

      Thursday's flight is the fulfilment of a childhood dream for Col Pontes, 
our correspondent adds. 

      He has been training since 1998 for such a mission, which was originally 
to have been on a US space shuttle. 

      Col Pontes is being accompanied by Pavel Vinogradov of Russia and US 
astronaut Jeffrey Williams. 
     


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