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Russian Soyuz rocket with 3 astronauts blasts off to ISS, days after glitch

The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on March 23, 2024 [Pavel Mikheyev/Reuters]

A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) blasted off on Saturday, two days after its launch was aborted at the last minute.

The spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus launched smoothly from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan.

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