[ISS] Soyuz TMA-17M Launches into Orbit with Three New Crew Members

2015-07-25 518

A Russian Soyuz TMA-17M Spacecraft has successfully launched from Baikonur in Kazachstan on a Soyuz-FG rocket today, 22nd July 2015 at 21:02 UTC.

The Soyuz carries Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japanese Astronaut Kimiya Yui and American NASA astronaut Kjell N. Lindgren who will dock to the International Space Station later tonight.