Launch replays from cameras around the pad and Baikonur range. br br A Russian Soyuz TMA-17M Spacecraft has successfully launched from Baikonur in Kazachstan on a Soyuz-FG rocket today, 22nd July 2015 at 21:02 UTC. br br The Soyuz carries Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japanese Astronaut Kimiya Yui and American NASA astronaut Kjell N. Lindgren who will dock to the International Space Station later tonight.