The shuttle launched on calendar from Russia's Baikonur cosmodrome in the fruitless Kazakh steppe at 2102 GMT, conveying cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko,
US space explorer Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui of Japan.
As the Soyuz TMA 17M rocket surged skywards from the platform, the flame from the promoters set the inky night sky aglow.
Russian authorities inhaled a moan of alleviation, with the space office Roscosmos saying that the third phase of the Soyuz rocket isolated on time and the team were "feeling admirably."
"All is well, everything is as per arrangement," said veteran cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, giving live discourse of the liftoff on TV.
Everyone's eyes were prepared on the dispatch after Russia was in May compelled to defer the space travelers' flight on the grounds that a supply ship had smashed back to Earth taking after a rocket disappointment.
Russia put all space go on hold after the disappointment of the unmanned Advancement vessel taking freight to the ISS in late April.
The destined boat lost contact with Earth and wrecked in the environment. The disappointment, which Russia has faulted for an issue in a Soyuz rocket, likewise constrained a gathering of space travelers to spend an additional month on board the ISS.
A workhorse of space that goes back to the Chilly War, the Soyuz is utilized for kept an eye on and unmanned flights. (AFP)