Posted: Sun, Mar 25, 2018, 10:50 AM ET (1450 GMT)

Two NASA astronauts and one Roscosmos cosmonaut are on the International Space Station after a launch Wednesday. A Soyuz rocket lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 1:44 pm EDT (1744 GMT) Wednesday and placed the Soyuz MS-08 spacecraft into orbit. The spacecraft is carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev and American astronauts Richard Arnold and Andrew Feustel. It docked successfully with the ISS at 3:40 pm EDT (1940 GMT) Friday.