Russia launches a crew of one man and two women to the space station

Two days after A rare launch aborted at the last secondA Russian Soyuz spacecraft took off on a flight to the International Space Station on Saturday, carrying two short-term crew members and a NASA astronaut on a six-month mission.

Soyuz MS-25/71S commander Oleg Novitskiy, Belarusian guest cosmonaut Marina Vasilevskaya and NASA veteran Tracy Dyson thundered away from the Baikonur Cosmodrome at 8:36 a.m. EDT (5:36 p.m. local time), slipping into orbit eight minutes and 45 seconds later.

The launch was originally scheduled for last Thursday, but the countdown was cut short within 20 seconds when computers detected low voltage readings ...