Expedition 8 Launch Day

With the gloves of each of the crew member in bags on a table in front of them, space suit technicians look out the bus window during the short ride to the launch pad, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the liftoff of a Soyuz TMA-3 vehicle to the International Space Station.  Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

With the gloves of each of the crew member in bags on a table in front of them, space suit technicians look out the bus window during the short ride to the launch pad, Saturday, Oct. 18, 2003, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the liftoff of a Soyuz TMA-3 vehicle to the International Space Station. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)