The Big Picture: Space station

A train brings the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 rocket to the launch pad of the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan

A train brings the Russian Soyuz TMA-14 rocket to the launch pad of the Russian leased Baikonur cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan.

The rocket is set to blast off on 26 March carrying US space tourist Charles Simonyi to the International Space Station.

Photo: Natalia Kolesnikova/AFP/Getty Images


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