Three bound for Space Station

[Rico]

Looks like it was a great launch!

Two rookie cosmonauts and a NASA shuttle veteran rocketed into orbit aboard a Russian Soyuz ferry craft today and set off for the International Space Station.
Joining them were 32 medaka fish, bound for a zero-gravity research aquarium aboard the lab complex.
Under a clear afternoon sky, the workhorse Russian rocket roared to life at 4:51 p.m. local time (3:51 a.m. PT) and smoothly climbed away from its launching pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Full article:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57537916-76/three-man-soyuz-crew-blasts-off-for-space-station/