European Space Center (ESA) Kourou Spaceport

Writer Alain de Botton stands by a mural of a launching Roskosmos Soyuz rocket while researching his book, The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work (Hamish Hamilton, UK 2009) at ESA's Kourou Spaceport

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