US-Russian crew blasts off for space station
Space Station
The International Space Station (ISS) crew members, U.S. astronaut Kevin Ford, center, and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy, bottom, and Evgeny Tarelkin wave as they board the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft at the Baikonur cosmodrome before their launch to the International Space Station Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012 in Kazakhstan. (AP Photo/Reuters, Shamil Zhumatov, Pool)






