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A Russian Soyuz spacecraft launched into space with two cosmonauts and an astronaut on board.
Two Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut have arrived at the International Space Station (ISS), after a journey that lasted just over three hours.
The trip was the fastest to date for a manned spacecraft to the ISS. According to the Moscow-based news agency RIA Novosti, it took “a record three hours and three minutes,” which is about half the time compared to a normal trip to the space station.
Sergei Ryzhikov and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Kathleen Rubins of the US NASA were launched from the Baikonur space base in Kazakhstan on Wednesday morning.
Everything went according to plan based on communication between the control center and the crew, claims a NASA television commentator.
All three on board say space travel can unite rival nations for a common cause.
– We have a fantastic partnership. We will continue to train crews here and the cosmonauts will come to the Johnson Space Center and train, says Kathleen Rubins of Star City outside Moscow, in an interview before launch.
The ISS project is a collaboration between Russia and the US and has had a crew on board since 2000.
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