Launch replays from cameras dotted around the launchpad in Baikonur.br br A Russian Soyuz-FG rocket has successfully blasted three crew members into space in their Soyuz MS-09 spacecraft. The rocket lifted off at 11:12 UTC, June 6th 2018 from Site 15 of the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazachstan. The Expedition 56 crew consists of Russian Soyuz Commander and Cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev, ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor. The crew will dock to the International Space Station on Friday, June 8th 2018.