A Soyuz spacecraft blasted off on Wednesday for the International Space Station (ISS) carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one US astronaut. The Soyuz MS-26 entered orbit as planned after launching from the Russian spaceport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Russian space agency said. Astronaut Don Pettit and cosmonauts Alexey Ovchinin and Ivan Wagner were on board the flight, which was due to last three hours and 10 minutes and arrive at 21:33 (1933 GMT). Despite serious political tensions between Moscow and Washington, Russia and the US continue to work together on space travel, with US astronauts…