The Baikonur Cosmodome in Kazakhstan is a long way from the town of Winter in far northern Wisconsin.That’s where U.S. Army Colonel Jeffrey Williams of NASA was born and raised.Wednesday night, people from that Sawyer County town will gather at the local school to watch him blast-off aboard the Soyuz spacecraft.Mike Simonson reports from Superior…
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