Maryna Vasileuskaya, Belarus’ first woman cosmonaut, was aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft that blasted off successfully on Saturday headed for the International Space Station, Moscow’s Roscosmos space agency said. “The Soyuz took off from Baikonur” in Kazakhstan at 12:36 GMT, a Roscosmos statement said, adding that the spacecraft went into orbit “as planned.” Initially programmed for Thursday, the take-off was delayed on the launchpad at the last moment in another high-profile setback for Russia’s space program that has been hit by financial problems, scandal, corruption and failure. Roscosmo…