Russia's Soyuz MS-12 spacecraft carrying three astronauts successfully took off for the International Space Station (ISS) Thursday, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said.

 

俄罗斯航天局表示，联盟MS-12号宇宙飞船周四带着三名宇航员成功起飞开向国际空间站。
 

 

Soyuz-FG rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 22:14 Moscow time (1914 GMT), Roscosmos said in a press release.

 

At 22:23 Moscow time (1923 GMT), the spacecraft detached from the third launch vehicle stage and continued its autonomous¹ flight to the ISS under the guidance of specialists from the Russian Mission Control Center.

 

Soyuz MS-12, carrying Roscosmos astronaut Alexei Ovchinin, and NASA astronauts Nick Hague and Christina Koch, will automatically approach the ISS and dock to it at 04:07 Moscow time (0107 GMT) Friday.

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