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| A Russian Soyuz 2.1a lifts-off with a new crew bound for the space station. (NASA) |
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A NASA astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts lifted-off from Kazakhstan on Friday on a fast trip to reach the International Space Station.
American Mark T. Vande Hei and Russian's Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov are scheduled to spend nearly six months in space.
Lift-off of the Soyuz 2.1a rocket occurred on time at 3:42:40.9 a.m. EDT (12:42 p.m. local), from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Nine minutes later, the crewed Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft arrived in an initial orbit.
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