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A Russian Soyuz capsule on Thursday carried three new crew members to the International Space Station, including the first Russian woman to live aboard the orbital outpost.

Elena Serova is only the fourth Russian woman to fly into space, and the first since Elena Kondakova in 1997. In contrast, NASA has flown more than 40 women astronauts. Two of them have served as commanders of the space station: Peggy Whitson in 2007-2008, and Sunita Williams in 2012.

Serova and her crewmates, NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore and Russia's Alexander Samokutyaev, blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 4:25 p.m. ET Thursday, which was 2:25 a.m. local time Friday. One of the Soyuz capsule's two power-producing solar arrays failed to deploy in orbit, but NASA said the crew was never in any danger.

The capsule successfully docked with the space station several minutes ahead of schedule, at 10:11 p.m. ET. "Contact and capture confirmed," Mission Control said. The solar array deployed properly after docking.

The three arriving spacefliers boost the Expedition 41 crew to its full complement of six. During their six-month tour of duty, Serova, Wilmore and Samokutyaev will help maintain the station and conduct scientific experiments.

The other three crew members are Russia's Max Suraev, NASA's Reid Wiseman and German astronaut Alexander Gerst. They've been aboard the station since May and are scheduled to head home in a different Soyuz capsule in November.

In a pre-flight NASA interview, Serova said she tried not to dwell on her place in history. "Space is what I do for work, and thats what I think about it: Its my work," she said. "But obviously for Russian women it might be a breakthrough."

The first woman in space was Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, who flew on a Vostok craft in 1963. Svetlana Savitskaya was No. 2: She became the world's first woman spacewalker in 1984 when she was part of the repair team for the Soviet Union's Salyut 7 space station.

Kondakova spent five months aboard Russia's Mir space station in 1994-1995 a stint that made her the first woman to live in space for a long-duration mission. She also flew aboard the shuttle Atlantis for a visit to Mir in 1997.

Despite all the firsts, women have not always had an easy time in the Russian space program. In 2005, for example, the director of Russia's top space medical institute said women weren't suited to lead the way to Mars because they were "fragile and delicate creatures."

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The new six-member Expedition 41 crew, comprising American, Russian and European astronauts and cosmonauts gathers in the Zvezda service module on the International Space Station for a welcoming ceremony, Sept. 26, 2014. NASA TV

Looking like a wounded bird with only one of its two solar wings deployed, a Russian Soyuz spacecraft glided to an otherwise picture-perfect docking with the International Space Station late Thursday, boosting the lab's crew back to six with the addition of a veteran cosmonaut, a NASA shuttle flier and the first female cosmonaut to win a station berth.

With commander Alexander Samokutyaev at the controls, flanked on the left by board engineer Elena Serova and on the right by Barry "Butch" Wilmore, the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft engaged the docking mechanism on the station's upper Poisk module at 10:11 p.m. EDT (GMT-4) as the two spacecraft sailed 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean approaching the coast of Ecuador.

"Contact and capture confirmed," someone said over a translated Russian audio loop. "Congratulations."

The linkup came six hours -- four orbits -- after a sky-lighting launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The eight-minute 45-second climb to space went smoothly, but only one of the Soyuz's two solar panels unfolded after the ship reached orbit.

The Soyuz TMA-14M rocket is launched with Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Barry "Butch" Wilmore of NASA, Sept. 26, 2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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A little more than a half hour after docking, perhaps helped along by the slight jarring of impact or the extreme temperature swings spacecraft experience in orbit -- or both -- the stuck left-side solar array suddenly popped free, easing any concerns about the ship's return to Earth next March.

"It's fully deployed, and it's as beautiful as they come," Samokutyaev reported in a translated call to Russian flight controllers.

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A Russian-built Soyuz capsule carrying a crew of three reached the International Space Station late Thursday (Sept. 25), despite a stuck solar array that failed to deploy just after its launch six hours earlier.

The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft linked up with the station at 10:11 p.m. EDT (0211 GMT) as the two spacecraft sailed high over the Pacific Ocean. The Soyuz arrived at the space station with American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts including Elena Serova, the first female cosmonaut ever to visit the International Space Station.

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Russia's Soyuz vehicles are three-person spacecraft made up of a crew capsule, orbital module and service module powered by two winglike solar arrays. Initially, Russian engineers were concerned the stuck solar array would block a radiator and lead to hotter temperatures inside the Soyuz, but the capsule's crew reported all was well, NASA officials said. [See launch photos of the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft]

The Soyuz clearly had enough power for a smooth docking, despite being at half-capacity.

"The port solar array isn't deployed but the power situation is fine. It just doesn't look good from the point of view of photographs," one of the Soyuz crew said during the docking. "We're eating and drinking, and we're in good spirits. Everything is as it should be."

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The docking occurred just hours after a flawless launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where Serova and her crewmates NASA astronaut Barry "Butch" Wilmore and cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev bid farewell to Earth to begin a nearly six-month space mission. Trio joined three other space travelers already aboard the station: astronaut Reid Wiseman of NASA; Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency; and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suarev, who commands the station's Expedition 41 crew.

Wiseman said he and his Expedition 41 crewmates watched a live video feed of the launch and even captured a photo of the liftoff from space, which he posted on Twitter.

"That looked like a good ride," Wiseman radioed down to NASA's Mission Control in Houston. "We look forward to seeing them in orbit, and we'll have dinner ready waiting for them."

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The Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft takes off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, carrying three crew members bound for the International Space Station. NASA TV

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An experienced Russian cosmonaut, a NASA shuttle veteran and the first female cosmonaut to be assigned to the International Space Station blasted off Thursday aboard a Soyuz ferry craft, kicking off a six-hour flight to the orbiting lab complex. One of two solar arrays failed to initially deploy, but officials said the spacecraft had more than enough power for the planned four-orbit rendezvous.

With Soyuz TMA-14M commander Alexander Samokutyaev at the controls, flanked on the left by board engineer Elena Serova and on the right by Barry "Butch" Wilmore, the Soyuz rocket thundered to life at 4:25 p.m. EDT (GMT-4; 2:25 a.m. Friday local time), lighting up the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan as it climbed away.

Launching directly into the plane of the space station's orbit, the iconic Russian rocket soared away through a cloudy, deep overnight sky, putting on a dramatic show for family members, spaceport workers and agency managers as it accelerated toward space through low clouds.

The ascent went smoothly and all three crew members appeared relaxed in live video downlinked from the Soyuz. Eight minutes and 45 seconds after liftoff, the Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft separated from the rocket's upper stage into an orbit with a low point of 118 miles and a high point of around 143 miles, trailing the space station by about 2,311 miles.

But only one of the spacecraft's two solar panels initially deployed as planned.

"There's a problem with the port array," said a NASA official at the Johnson Space Center in Houston. "It's no mission impact as long as they stay on a four-orbit rendezvous. They have plenty of battery power for rendezvous and docking."

He said engineers were optimistic the panel would "shake" free at some point with rendezvous rocket firings and with orbital temperature swings.

"It looked like a good ride, we got to see about the first 30 seconds then we lost the Soyuz behind the Dragon (cargo ship)," astronaut Reid Wiseman radioed from the space station. "So we were happy to be watching NASA TV and see these guys safely in orbit. We'll have dinner waiting for them."

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