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Crew Lifts Off From Kazakhstan to Begin Science and Construction Work Aboard the International Space Station, NASA (with video)
"NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi safely launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Sunday. Liftoff occurred at 3:52 p.m. CST from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan."
You made a Spaceref link look like a NASA link there.
It makes me wonder how the astronauts get into the capsule. Are they craned up there in a basket or something like a cherry picker type thing? Also, it seems like they start the main engine(s) before solids just like on Shuttle.