Russian Soyuz lifts off to space with 3 astronauts

Washington: A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying three astronauts successfully lifted off to the International Space Station on Saturday.

The flight originally slated to fly on Thursday was aborted on the launch pad, due to a dead battery.

The soyuz MS-25 carrying NASA's Tracy C. Dyson, cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of the Russian space agency Roscosmos and Marina Vasilevskaya, a spaceflight participant from Belarus, launched to ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 8:36 a.m. EDT (6:06 IST).