Russia launches American and two cosmonauts on space station mission

Crew members NASA astronaut Anil Menon, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina attend a send-off ceremony before the launch of the Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, 14 July 2026. MAXIM SHIPENKOV/Pool via REUTERS 14 Jul 2026 10:57PM WASHINGTON, July 14 : Russia launched two cosmonauts and an American astronaut to the International Space Station on Tuesday from Kazakhstan, resuming crewed flights from a recently repaired astronaut launchpad with a rare joint attendance by the heads of NASA and Russia's space agency.U.S. astronaut Anil Menon and cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov and Anna Kikina lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-29 spacecraft at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1447 GMT) for a roughly three-hour trek to