<p>The TMA-17 spacecraft was launched at 00:52 hrs from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and it separated from the Soyuz-FG booster on schedule.<br /><br />It is scheduled to dock with the ISS in the automated mode Wednesday.<br /><br />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 US astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev.<br /></p>
<p>The TMA-17 spacecraft was launched at 00:52 hrs from the Baikonur Space Center in Kazakhstan and it separated from the Soyuz-FG booster on schedule.<br /><br />It is scheduled to dock with the ISS in the automated mode Wednesday.<br /><br />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 US astronaut Jeff Williams and Russian Maxim Surayev.<br /></p>