Soyuz rocket launches to take astronauts to International Space Station - BBC News

A new crew is being taken to the International Space Station, on a joint Russian-US rocket which took off from Kazakhstan.

The three members of Expedition 70 will relieve astronauts currently on the space station, and will remain there for six months to a year in the orbiting lab.

The Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrone in Kazakhstan