Yank Blasts Off With Cosmonauts

Team will join crew at international space station
By Emily Rauhala,  Newser Staff
Posted Apr 2, 2010 5:29 AM CDT
Yank Blasts Off With Cosmonauts
U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, one of three crew members of the mission to the International Space Station (ISS).   (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)

A Russian rocket blasted off from a space center in southern Kazakhstan today, transporting a NASA astronaut, Tracy Caldwell Dyson, and two Russian cosmonauts to the International Space Station. The team will join a Russian commander, a NASA astronaut, and a Japanese astronaut on board the station when they dock on Sunday, notes the AP. "We are ready," Caldwell said, in Russian, just before the launch.
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