News Desk: NASA astronaut of Indian origin, Sunita Williams has begun her second space journey, as a Russian Soyuz spacecraft carrying three astronauts including her was launched from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

 

The astronauts will reach the international space station within two days and join their three colleagues who are already stationed at the permanent space outpost.

 

Apart from Sunita Williams, Russian cosmonaut Yury Malenchenko and Japan's Akihito Hoshide are also in the Soyuz spacecraft that was launched today.

 

Today's launch marked the 37th anniversary of the landmark Apollo-Soyuz mission during which crafts from the United States and the Soviet Union docked in space.

 

Sunita Williams was born in Euclid, Ohio. He was brought up in Massachusetts in the USA. The 46-year-old astronaut spent 195 days at the space station in 2006-07.