A Russian spaceship took off Friday, taking one US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on a six-month mission to the International Space Station, DPA reported.
American Tracy Caldwell-Dyson, together with Russian colleagues Mikhail Korniyenko and Alexander Skvortsov, blasted off aboard the Russian Soyuz spaceship at 6:04 am (0404 GMT) from the Russian Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakstan, the Russian news agency Interfax reported.
The three were scheduled Sunday to dock with the space station, where they were to perform a number of scientific experiments before returning to Earth on September 16.
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