Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko, Japanese Astronaut Kimiya Yui and American NASA astronaut Kjell N. Lindgren left their hotel quarters today in Baikonur Kazachstan and suited up in their launch and entry spacesuits before heading out to the launch pad and boarding the Soyuz-FG rocket atop which sits their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft to take them into space.