Photographers take pictures of the launch of Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-09M space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, as it blasted off at the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, May 29, 2013. The Soyuz carrying an American, Russian and Italian blasted off Wednesday for a six-hour trip to the International Space Station, where the new crew will spend six months conducting a variety of experiments. (Photo by Mikhail Metzel/AP Photo)
|