First Soyuz rocket since October accident launches with U.S. astronaut aboard

Kirill KUDRYAVTSEV / POOL / AFP(BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan) — A Russian Soyuz rocket carrying astronauts bound for the International Space Station has taken off for the first time since a Soyuz rocket failed midair in October. American astronaut Anne McClain joined Canada’s David Saint-Jacques and Russia’s Oleg Kononenko aboard the rocket that launched from the Baikonur …

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