Russian spacecraft delivers American astronaut to space station

A Russian spacecraft safely delivered an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station on Tuesday, a flight hailed by Moscow as an example of fruitful Russia-U.S. space cooperation.

The Soyuz 2.1a rocket blasted off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan carrying Jonathan Kim, Sergei Ryzhikov and Alexei Zubritsky, docking three hours later with the ISS, Russia's Roscosmos state space corporation said.

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