Three astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station, a successful launch that follows October’s aborted mission. Three astronauts have blasted off to the International Space Station, a successful launch that follows October’s aborted mission. Astronauts in successful Soyuz launch two months after aborted missionNasa astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled on Monday from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Shooting into the sky at 6:31am ET, the Soyuz rocket carrying @AstroAnnimal, @Astro_DavidS and Oleg Kononenko leaves Earth on six-hour journey to their new home on @Space_Station. Since the mishap, four successful Soyuz launches have been conducted to clear the path for the crew’s launch.

Source: Irish Independent December 03, 2018 12:03 UTC