Soyuz spacecraft launches for ISS with American, 2 Russians
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim and two Russian crew mates launched successfully to the International Space Station (ISS) on Tuesday on board Russia's Soyuz MS-27 spacecraft. A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan. Kim, Ryzhikov and Zubritsky are scheduled to spend about eight months in the ISS.