Craft carrying two Russians and an American docks at space station

The rocket lifted off from Kazakhsatn (Ivan Timoshenko, Roscosmos space corporation, via AP)

A Soyuz spacecraft carrying two Russians and an American has docked at the International Space Station, a little more than three hours after its launch.

The capsule on top of a towering rocket set off from Russia’s manned space launch facility in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, and docked with the space station after two orbits of the Earth, a fast trip compared with some that have lasted for days.