Three astronauts are headed to the International Space Station Wednesday morning.
WATCH LIVE | Astronauts launch to Space Station Wednesday morning
NASA astronaut Serena Auñón-Chancellor, cosmonaut Sergey Prokopyev and European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst are scheduled to lift off aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:12 a.m. EDT (1112 GMT; 5:12 p.m. local Baikonur time).
The astronauts are scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station Friday morning. They will join NASA astronauts Drew Feustel and Ricky Arnold and cosmonaut Oleg Artymyev.
