Half a century after the first manned flight into space, a Soyuz rocket has blasted off from Baikonur in Kazakhstan on a mission to the orbiting International Space Station. Much has changed since the days of Yuri Gagarin, not least the close cooperation between the US and modern-day Russia. Things may still be cramped in the spacecraft but now they are big enough to squeeze three people on board. !www.euronews.net ... www.euronews.net