Previous mission was aborted minutes after blast-off due to a problem with the booster rocket, forcing the pilots to return to Earth in an escape pod
Nasa astronaut Anne McClain, David Saint-Jacques of the Canadian Space Agency and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian space agency Roscosmos lifted off as scheduled at 5:31pm local time on Monday from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
Their Soyuz spacecraft entered a designated orbit just under nine minutes after the launch and is set to dock at the space outpost in about six hours after making four orbits of the Earth.
Nasa and Roscosmos said that all on-board systems were operating normally and the crew was feeling fine.
