MOSCOW (Sputnik) – A Russian Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-08 manned spacecraft lifted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to bring three new crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), a Sputnik correspondent reported from the launch site.
The new addition to the ISS crew comprises Russian cosmonaut and spacecraft commander Oleg Artemiev as well as NASA astronauts and flight engineers Andrew Feustel and Richard R. Arnold.
Soyuz MS-08 docking with the ISS is slated for 10:41 p.m. Moscow time (19:41 GMT) on Friday.
Sourse: sputniknews.com
