US-Russian crew blasts off for International Space Station
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A rocket carrying two American astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut to the International Space Station has blasted off successfully.
The Soyuz booster blasted off as scheduled Wednesday from the Russia-leased Baikonur launchpad in Kazakhstan. It's carrying NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold, and Roscosmos' cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev.
The rocket put their Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft in a designated orbit en route to the station. The spacecraft is set to dock at the orbiting outpost on Friday.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The trio will join Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos, Scott Tingle of NASA and Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency who are on the station.