Astronauts blast off for year-long stay on space station - video
by Guardian Staff from on (#5XW4)
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, sending a US astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts on their way to the International Space Station, a Nasa television broadcast showed. Two of the men, Nasa astronaut Scott Kelly, 51, and cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko, 54, will stay aboard the station for a year, twice as long as previous crews. Continue reading...







