Soyuz rendezvous aborted after successful launch

A veteran Russian space station commander, a rookie cosmonaut and a NASA shuttle flier rocketed smoothly into space aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft Tuesday, but the crew ran into problems executing a required rendezvous rocket firing, delaying docking with the International Space Station until Thursday at the earliest. Soyuz TMA-12M commander Alexander Skvortsov, flight engineer Oleg Artemyev and NASA astronaut Steven Swanson lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 5:17 p.m. EDT (GMT-4; 3:17 a.m. Wednesday local time), kicking off a planned four-orbit, six-hour rendezvous with the station. More

(Source: SpaceFlight Now - Mar 26)