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Two Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, and American astronaut Loral O'Hara rocket toward the International Space Station as tensions between Moscow and Washington rise over Ukraine. The crew is expected to dock at the ISS three hours later. The launch comes after Russia's first lunar mission in nearly 50 years failed last month. IMAGES
From Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the Russian Soyuz 2.1B rocket blasts into space carrying 36 new satellites, from British operator OneWeb. IMAGES
Russian, American and Canadian astronauts blast off for the first manned Soyuz mission since a frightening failed launch in October. Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Anne McClain of NASA and David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency take off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan for a six-and-a-half month mission aboard the International Space Station. IMAGES of the launch
A Russian Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz MS-11 spacecraft due to launch on December 3, 2018, from the Russian-leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome. IMAGES
The International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 53-54 crew held a pre-flight press conference at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston on Wednesday. The three crew members, NASA astronauts Joe Acaba, Mark Vande Hei and cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, will launch to the space station aboard the Soyuz MS-06 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, September 13 in 2017.