SUCCESSFUL LIFT-OFF
The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft with the international crew of US astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui blasts off a launch pad of a Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO
The Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft with the international crew of US astronaut Kjell Lindgren, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui blasts off a launch pad of a Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on July 22, 2015. AFP PHOTO
BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan: Astronauts from Russia, Japan and the United States Thursday docked successfully with the International Space Station under six hours after they launched, NASA television showed.