Three Russian cosmonauts are due to launch to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday.
If successful, the launch will continue a two-decade-plus shared Russian-US presence aboard the orbiting spacecraft, despite heightened tensions between Moscow and Washington after Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine.
The Soyuz spacecraft carrying the team is set to lift-off at 3:55pm GMT from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, beginning a journey to the ISS that will take around three hours.
Soyuz commander Oleg Artemyev will lead the team, with two spaceflight rookies, Denis Matveev and Sergey Korsakov, also on-board.
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