Soyuz Rocket Launches Successfully To Relief Of NASA, Russia Space Agency

NASA astronaut Anne McClain (from left), Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency successfully blasted into space on Monday morning. They should reach the International Space Station by noon. It is the first mission since an aborted launch in October.

A Russian, an American and a Canadian were aboard the spacecraft when it lifted off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazkahstan. It’s the first launch since a failed mission in October.

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