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Soyuz with next expedition crew launched to ISS

The docking with the station is planned for November 16, 09:33 Moscow time, a Roscosmos source said

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, November 14 (Itar-Tass) —— The manned Soyuz was launched from Baikonur to the International Space Station at 08:14 Moscow time this Monday, an Itar-Tass correspondent reported from the site.

The launch of the manned spacecraft was delayed for almost two months after the Progress cargo craft crash in August.

The Soyuz is carrying the next Russian-American 29/30 expedition crew -- Russians Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin and NASA astronaut Daniel Burbank.

The docking with the station is planned for November 16, 09:33 Moscow time, a Roscosmos source said.