MOSCOW (AP) — A U.S.-Russian crew of three launched Thursday to the International Space Station.

NASA astronaut Chris Williams and two Russian crewmates, Sergei Mikaev and Sergei Kud-Sverchkov, lifted off from the Russia-leased Baikonur launch facility in Kazakhstan in a Russian Soyuz rocket.

All three are scheduled to spend about eight months at the orbiting outpost.

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft was scheduled to dock at the station about three hours after the liftoff.

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