BAIKONUR (AFP) – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three crew, including a US astronaut and a Russian cosmonaut who will be the first to spend an entire year on the International Space Station, blasted off on schedule Friday, Russian mission control said.The Soyuz-TMA16M spacecraft took off from Russias Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and is headed for the International Space Station. The flight is normal, mission control said seconds after the launch.A successful launch of the Soyuz-FG rocket was carried out at 22:42 pm Moscow time (1942 GMT) to take the Soyuz TMA-16M manned spacecraft into orbit, Russias space agency said …read more
Source: Dunya TV
