BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, including the first woman cosmonaut in 17 years, blasted off on schedule Friday, Russian mission control said.
The Soyuz-TMA14M spacecraft took off at 12.25am Moscow time (2025 GMT Thursday) from Russia’s Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to start the journey to the International Space Station (ISS).
“The Soyuz-FG space rocket successfully launched to put the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft into orbit,” the Russian space agency Roscosmos said in a statement.
The crew members were doing well, it added.
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Source: theSun
