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Soyuz rocket carrying crew of 3 blasts off from Baikonur

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U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough, center, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov, bottom, and Andrey Borisenko, members of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), wave before boarding the Soyuz MS-02 space ship, in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (Maxim Shipenkov/Pool Photo via AP) (The Associated Press)

The Soyuz rocket booster with Soyuz MS-2 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. The Russian rocket carries US astronaut Shane Kimbrough, Russian cosmonauts Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev) (The Associated Press)

U.S. astronaut Shane Kimbrough, a member of the main crew to the International Space Station (ISS), has his space suit tested prior to the launch of the Soyuz MS-02 space ship in Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev, pool) (The Associated Press)

A Soyuz rocket carrying two Russians and an American has blasted off for the International Space Station.

The crew of Roscosmos Sergey Ryzhikov and Andrey Borisenko and NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough lifted off as scheduled from the Russian-operated Baikonur launch facility in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 2:05 p.m. local time (0805 GMT) Wednesday.

Their Soyuz MS-02 space capsule is set to dock at the space outpost two days later.

The launch was originally set for Sept. 23, but it was postponed because of a technical issue with the Soyuz spacecraft that was eventually fixed.

Kimbrough, Ryzhikov and Borisenko are to spend just over four months at the station before coming back to Earth in late February.