The rocket was scheduled for lift-off on Thursday, but its launch was halted by an automatic safety system with about 20 seconds to spare.
A rocket taking astronauts from the US, Russia and Belarus to the International Space Station has successfully blasted off - days after its launch was dramatically aborted with seconds to spare. The Russian Soyuz rocket launched smoothly from the Baikonur facility in Kazakhstan on Saturday. Its space capsule, carrying
astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus, successfully detached and entered orbit eight minutes later. The capsule is set to complete a 34-orbit journey over the next two days in order to dock at the International Space Station, on Monday afternoon. The launch was initially planned for Thursday but was halted by an automatic safety system about 20 seconds before the scheduled lift-off.
astronauts Loral O'Hara, Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, as well as Russian astronauts Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, and Alexander Grebenkin. Read more from Sky News:Children among more than 100 killed in Moscow shootingTwo arrested over service station blast released Novitsky, Vasilevskaya and O'Hara are set to return to Earth on 6 April.
and its partners hope to continue operating the orbiting outpost until 2030.
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