The Soyuz rocket is erected into position after being rolled out to the launch pad by train, on Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA's Kevin Ford and Russian astronauts Oleg Novitsky and Yevgeny Tarelkin will blast off Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2012, from the Russian-leased facility in southern Kazakhstan and will spend around six months on the orbiting laboratory. They will join U.S. astronaut Sunita Williams, Russia's Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of Japan's JAXA agency. (AP Photo/NASA, Bill Ingalls) MANDATORY CREDIT
