Three-man Soyuz crew blasts off for space station
Two rookie cosmonauts and a NASA shuttle veteran rocketed into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft today and set off for the International Space Station.
Joining them were 32 medaka fish, bound for a zero-gravity research aquarium aboard the lab complex.
Under a clear afternoon sky, the workhorse Russian rocket roared to life at 4:51 p.m. local time (3:51 a.m. PT) and smoothly climbed away from its launching pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
It was the first manned flight from the remote Site 31 pad since July 1984, a departure from the usual … Read more