Soyuz To Restore Six-Person Station Ops

HOUSTON — A Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying a three-man, multinational crew is speeding toward a Dec. 23 rendezvous with the International Space Station, following the start of a two-day transit with a successful Dec. 21 liftoff from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, the Soyuz commander, flight ...