"Russian Soyuz Successfully Launches Crew to International Space Station"

A Russian Soyuz spacecraft successfully docked at the International Space Station, bringing two short-duration crew members and a NASA astronaut for a six-month stay. The crew swap was necessary due to the station's ongoing research and the need to prepare for the arrival of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in early May, which will provide NASA with redundancy for launching astronauts to and from the space station.