By Xinhua
Moscow : A Russian spaceship with a first South Korean female astronaut along with two Russian cosmonauts onboard blasted off from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, the mission control outside Moscow said.
The Soyuz TMA-12 lifted off from the space center in the barren steppes of northern Kazakhstan at 15:16 Moscow time (1116 GMT) and is going to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on 17:00 Moscow time (1300 GMT) Thursday.