The Soyuz TMA-14M rocket, taking Expedition 41 to the International Space Station (ISS), was launched on Friday (26 September) at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
The rocket has on board Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA.
Samokutyaev, Serova, and Wilmore will spend the next five and a half months aboard the ISS.
Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to live and work on the station.
