Soyuz MS-08 Manned Spacecraft With New ISS Crew Launched From Baikonur (VIDEO)

18:15 GMT, 21 March 2018
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - A Russian Soyuz-FG carrier rocket with the Soyuz MS-08 manned spacecraft lifted off on Wednesday from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan to bring three new crew members to the International Space Station (ISS), a Sputnik correspondent reported from the launch site.
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The new addition to the ISS crew comprises Russian cosmonaut and spacecraft commander Oleg Artemiev as well as NASA astronauts and flight engineers Andrew Feustel and Richard R. Arnold.

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Soyuz MS-08 docking with the ISS is slated for 10:41 p.m. Moscow time (19:41 GMT) on Friday.

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