A US-Russian crew has blasted off in a Russian Soyuz rocket for a half-year mission aboard the International Space Station.
US astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Korniyenko lifted off from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as planned.
After docking with the multinational International Space Station on Sunday, they will join Russian Expedition 23 commander Oleg Kotov, Japanese flight engineer Soichi Noguchi and US flight engineer Timothy Creamer.
