The Soyuz TMA-06M spaceship is mounted on a launch pad at the Russian leased Kazakh Baikonur cosmodrome, on Sunday. The launch of the next ISS crew including US astronaut  Kevin Ford, Russian cosmonauts, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin is scheduled for today.

Expedition 33/34 crew members, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS, right, depart the Cosmonaut Hotel to head to another building across the Baikonur Cosmodrome where they will suit-up for their soyuz launch, today, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station.