A new trio of International Space Station residents, Expedition 29 Flight Engineers Dan Burbank, Anton Shkaplerov and Anatoly Ivanishin, are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 11:14 p.m. Full story
BAIKONUR, KAZAKHSTAN - DECEMBER 21: In this handout photo provided by the European Space Agency , ESA Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and ESA astronaut André Kuipers wave goodbye to the crowd gathered at the foot of the Soyuz launch pad stairs before taking the elevator
Employees work on the Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) spacecraft at the Baikonur comosdrome in Kazakhstan October 31, 2011. Russia hopes to end a humiliating two decade absence from deep space with Tuesday's launch of an a ambitious three-year mission to bring back a soil sample from the surface of Mars'
The Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, NASA astronaut Don Pettit and the European Space Agency's Andre Kuipers launches to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in this still image take from NASA TV December 21, 2011. REUTERS/NAS
epa03018118 A bright trail of Russian Phobos-Grunt probe is seen in the night sky above Salgotarjan, 109 kms northeast of Budapest, Hungary, as the unmanned probe orbits around Earth 28 November 2011. The probe blasted off on 09 November to be sent to Phobos, the larger, inner moon of planet Mars,