American Loral O'Hara blasts off with two Russian cosmonauts

 

NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara, left, Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko, centre, and Nikolai Chub, right, crew members of the new mission to the ISS, at the launch site of the Soyuz MS-24 spaceship in Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, on September 15, 2023 [Roscosmos Space Corporation via AP Photo] 

Ironic that two Russian cosmonauts and an astronaut from the US have docked with the International Space Station (ISS) after blasting off from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan amid raging tensions between Moscow and Washington over the invasion of Ukraine