Russian spacecraft blasts off from Kazakhstan

The rocket was carrying NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson, Russian Oleg Novitsky and Marina Vasilevskaya from Belarus.

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00:00 A Russian Soyuz spacecraft successfully took off from a launch pad in Kazakhstan on its

00:06 second attempt.

00:07 The aircraft carries three new crew members set to join the International Space Station.

00:13 Among them is the first Belarusian woman ever in orbit.

00:17 The launch was previously scheduled on March 21, but was aborted seconds before start.

00:23 The space station is one of the last remaining areas of collaboration between Russia and

00:27 the West amid tensions over Moscow's military action in Ukraine.

00:31 [WHOOSH]