Soyuz TMA-03M Launch

201112210002hq (21 Dec. 2011) --- The Soyuz TMA-03M rocket launches from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 7:16 p.m. (Kazakhstan time) on Dec. 21, 2011 carrying Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko of Russia, NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Don Pettit and European Space Agency astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi