A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and one American lifted off today from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, bound for the International Space Station.
According to a television broadcast by the Russian space agency Roscosmos, the spacecraft took off at 10.47:XNUMX a.m. local time.
The Soyuz MS-27, which was repainted for the mission to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II, entered orbit a few minutes after liftoff.
The three-member crew will conduct 50 scientific experiments in space, according to Roscosmos, before returning to Earth on December 9.
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