Astronauts blast off for space station on Soyuz rocket
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 16:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, along with fellow astronauts Kimiya Yui of Japan and Russian Crew Commander Oleg Kononenko, launched on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:02 p.m. ET on July 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.