Live: Soyuz lifts off with three more ISS crew

A Soyuz rocket has lifted off from Kazakhstan carrying three additional crew members for the International Space Station.

Liftoff at 6:34 Eastern time this morning starts a two-day journey to the space station, where the newcomers will help NASA and its international partners realize their longtime goal of a science complex in orbit. The Soyuz capsule successfully separated from the rocket about nine minutes later.

The three new residents will bring the station crew to six, ending a nearly decade-long period during which the size of the crew severely limited work aboard the station to just operations and maintenance.

You can read more about the mission in the earlier post below. You can continue watching the live coverage on NASA Television by clicking Play NASA TV in the top of the column to the right. The image at the top of this post is the latest live screen grab from the NASA TV broadcast.