Astronauts head to International Space Station
A Russian Soyuz craft has been launched into the morning skies over Kazakhstan, carrying three astronauts on their way to the International Space Station.
NASA astronaut Sunita Williams, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko and Japan's Akihito Hoshide will travel two days before reaching their three colleagues already at the permanent space outpost.
The Soyuz-FG rocket carrying a new crew to the International Space Station blasts off from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sunday. Family members and colleagues watched Sunday's launch from an observation platform at the Russian-leased cosmodrome in the dry southern steppes of the sprawling Central Asian country.
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