A Russian rocket carrying a US astronaut and two Russian crewmates arrived at the International Space Station on Tuesday, with a Kremlin envoy hailing cooperation in space between Washington and Moscow as relations thaw between the two nations.
A Soyuz booster rocket lifted off as scheduled on Tuesday morning from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan to put the Soyuz MS-27 in orbit. It docked at the space station just over three hours later.