Soyuz rocket launches joint US-Russian crew to space station

Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy (the commander), Pyotr Dubrov (flight engineer) and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei launched to the International Space Station on April 8, 2021 aboard a Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft. The rocket blasted off from from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakshtan. Credit: NASA / Roscosmos