BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, December 21 (RIA Novosti)...
The spacecraft was launched at 00:52 from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan, separated from the Soyuz-FG booster on schedule, at 1:01 Moscow time [22:01 Sunday GMT].
It is scheduled to dock with the ISS in the automated mode at 1:52 on Wednesday [22:52 Tuesday GMT].
The spacecraft carries Russia"s Oleg Kotov, NASA"s Timothy Creamer and Japan"s Soichi Noguchi, who are to join the current ISS crew of U.S. astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev.