MOSCOW REGION, March 30 (RIA Novosti) - A Russian carrier rocket with the latest crew to the world's sole civilian orbital station on board blasted off successfully from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan at 6.30 a.m. Moscow time (2.30 a.m. GMT), Mission Control near Moscow said Wednesday.
The Russian Soyuz TMA-8 rocket will take Russian astronaut Pavel Vinogradov, U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams, and Brazil's first man in space, Marcos Pontes, to the International Space Station. Pontes will return to Earth after his short program with the outgoing ISS crew.
