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BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan (AP) — A trio of astronauts from Russia, the United States and the European Space Agency has blasted off for a mission on the International Space Station.

A spacecraft carrying Serena Aunon-Chancellor of NASA, Sergey Prokopyev of Russian space agency Roscosmos and the ESA's Alexander Gerst, from Germany, lifted off as scheduled from the Russia-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan atop a Soyuz booster rocket at 1612 local time (1112 GMT) Wednesday. The Soyuz ship is set to dock at the orbiting outpost Friday.