New US-Russian Crew Launches Toward Space Station on Soyuz

A Russian Soyuz rocket launched a joint U.S.-Russian crew to the International Space Station Friday (March 18), a space team that includes an astronaut aiming to break an American spaceflight record recently set by NASA's year-in-space astronaut Scott Kelly. American astronaut Jeff Williams of NASA and cosmonauts Oleg Skripochka and Aleksey Ovchinin of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launched toward the space station at 5:26 p.m. EDT (2126 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio, riding in a Soyuz space capsule, is expected to rendezvous with the space station after a 6-hour journey, with docking set for 11:11 p.m. EDT (0311 GMT on March 19), according to NASA officials. More

(Source: Space.com - Mar 19)