Two astronauts from Belarus and the US have set off for the International Space Station (ISS) together with a Russian cosmonaut, marking the first time that a woman from Belarus is travelling to space. The Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft lifted off from Russia’s Baikonur Cosmodrome in the steppes of Kazakhstan at 1236 GMT. A first launch attempt had been aborted 20 seconds before take-off on Thursday due to technical problems. Saturday’s launch saw Belarusian astronaut Marina Vasilevskaya, who is being accompanied by NASA astronaut Tracy Dyson and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitsky, becoming the first wom…