Soyuz launch this afternoon with three crew members for the ISS

A Soyuz rocket is set to lift off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 2058 GMT (4:58 p.m. EDT). It will carry with a Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft with NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, Russian commander Oleg Kotov and cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy on board. It will follow “an express six-hour journey to the space station, with docking to the Poisk module at 0248 GMT (10:58 p.m. EDT)” .

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[ Update: Here is a video of the successful launch:

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