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Russian Soyuz with 2 cosmonauts, US astronaut docks at Int’l Space Station

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, centre, and Nikolai Chub, right, crew members of the new mission to the ISS, at the launch site of the Soyuz MS-24 spaceship in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on September 15, 2023 [Roscosmos Space Corporation via AP Photo]

Two Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut from the United States have docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over the invasion of Ukraine.

Russia’s Roscosmos space agency said cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub and US NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara lifted off on Friday onboard the Soyuz MS-24 spacecraft.

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