The Russian Soyuz-FG rocket booster with Soyuz TMA-11 space ship carrying a new crew to the international space station blasts off from the Baikonur cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Oct 10, 2007. American astronaut Peggy Whitson will be the first woman to command the station where she will arrive with Malasyan Sheikh Muszaphar Shukor and Russian Yuri Malenchenko (AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel) Mikhail Metzel