Soyuz TMA-05M launches crew for the space station

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying a Russian commander, a NASA flight engineer and a Japanese astronaut -- all veteran space travelers -- blasted off and streaked into orbit late Saturday (U.S. time), the first leg of a two-day flight to the International Space Station. Under a clear blue sky, the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 10:40:03 p.m. EDT Saturday (GMT-4; 8:40 a.m. local time) and quickly climbed away atop a rush of fiery exhaust. More

(Source: Spaceflight Now - Jul 16)