Brazil's first astronaut, Marcos Pontes, center, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, bottom, and U.S. astronaut Geoffrey Williams, top, wave just before the launch of the Soyuz TMA-8 spaceship at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakstan, Thursday, March 30, 2006. Credit:AP Photo/Misha Japaridze. Click to enlarge.
