A few hours ago the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and after less than six hours reached the International Space Station carrying the American astronaut Barry Wilmore and the Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev and Yelena Serova. The Soyuz has used the fast path now normally used. There was a problem with the spacecraft’s solar panels, that didn’t deploy correctly when it reached orbit, but it was solved after docking with the Station so there will be no repercussions.