Three-man crew blasts off to International Space Station

A three-man crew from Italy, Russia and the United States today blasted off from Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
Footage broadcast by Russia's space agency Roscosmos showed the Soyuz craft carrying NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazansky and Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency take off from the Baikonur cosmodrome.