Russia Launches New Space Station Crew After 2-Month Delay
Wednesday, July 22, 2015 - 17:00
in Astronomy & Space
NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Kimiya Yui of Japan blasted off atop a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today at 5:02 p.m. EDT (2102 GMT), beginning a 6-hour trek to the space station.