KOROLEV (Sputnik) — Russian cosmonauts Sergei Ryzhikov and Andrei Borisenko, along with US Astronaut Shane Kimbrough, took off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz-FG rocket on Wednesday.
Other remaining launches in 2016 include the Soyuz MS-03 manned spacecraft launch on November 16 and the Progress MS-04 space freighter launch on December 1.