Space capsule with 3 astronauts blasts off

[Still Waters]

A Soyuz space capsule successfully blasted off for the International Space Station on Friday, carrying an American astronaut, a Russian cosmonaut and an Italian astronaut.

NASA's Randy Bresnik, Russia's Sergei Ryazansky and Italy's Paolo Nespoli lifted off from the Russia-leased launch pad in Kazakhstan shortly after sunset at 21:41 p.m. on Friday (1541 GMT, 11:41 a.m. EDT). They will travel six hours before docking at the space station.

The three will join NASA's Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson as well as the veteran Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-space-capsule-astronauts-blasts-orbiting.html

[seeder]

I hope they have a safe and successful journey

[toast]

I`ve met Paolo Nespoli on an ESA meeting some years ago and I have to say he is the Italian version of Douglas Adams.

[+Hammerclaw]

Godspeed.

[Still Waters]

They've arrived.

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Three-man crew reaches International Space Station

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-three-man-crew-international-space-station.html