A relatively inexperienced crew of two astronauts and a cosmonaut blasted off Wednesday from theBaikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.German Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency, NASA’s Serena Aunon- Chancellor and Russian Sergei Prokopyev of Roscosmos shot into the sky in warm, dry conditions at 11:12 GMT for a planned docking at the space station on Friday, reports AFP.
