Japan, Russia, U.S. astronauts lift off to space station

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft was successfully launched Sunday to the International Space Station with three astronauts from Japan, Russia and the United States on board.The spacecraft carrying Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Anton Shkaplerov of Russia's Roscosmos agency and Scott Tingle of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration is expected to arrive at the ISS on Tuesday afternoon.The Soyuz successfully moved into orbit about nine minutes after the launch at 1:21 p.m. local time (4:21 p.m. JST) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.For Kanai, a …READ FULL ARTICLE