Soyuz TMA-18 set for blast off

The Soyuz TMA-18 space ship is lifted at its launch pad at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 31, 2010. The start of the new Soyuz mission, with U.S. astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov and Mikhail Kornienko, is due for blast off to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on April 2, 2010. [Agencies]