Soyuz and crew poised for blastoff to space station

Engineers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan are making final preparations for the planned Sunday launch of a Soyuz rocket carrying a space tourist and two long-duration crew members to the international space station. Expedition 18 commander Mike Fincke, flight engineer Yury Lonchakov and Richard Garriott, a computer game designer and son of former shuttle astronaut Owen Garriott, are scheduled for liftoff at 3:01:29 a.m. EDT Sunday from the same pad used by Yuri Gagarin. More

(Source: SpaceFlightNow - Oct 12)