Posted: Sun, Dec 24, 2017, 3:59 PM ET (2059 GMT)

A Soyuz spacecraft delivered three ISS crewmembers to the station Tuesday after a launch Dec. 17. A Soyuz rocket carrying the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft lifted off at 2:21 am EST (0721 GMT) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome and placed the spacecraft into low Earth orbit. Soyuz MS-07, carrying Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, U.S. astronaut Scott Tingle and Japanese astronaut Norishige Kanai, docked with the station early Tuesday.