Soyuz TMA-20M commander and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin, fellow Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka and NASA astronaut Jeffrey Williams have successfully launched into orbit on a Soyuz-FG rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Liftoff took place at 21:26 UTC, the crew are currently catching up with the International Space Station for which they will dock to in around 6 hours after launch.