The Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-21 space ship carrying a new crew to the International Space Station, ISS, blasts off from the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 5, 2011.
The Russian rocket carries U.S. astronaut Ron Garan , Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokytyaev and Andrei Borisenko.
(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)