Multi-national crew blasts off for space station
Wednesday, May 28, 2014 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla. (Reuters) - Leaving politics behind, a veteran Russian cosmonaut and a pair of rookie astronauts from the United States and Germany blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday for a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station.