Soyuz TM-31 Rollout at Baikonur

The Soyuz TM-31 launch vehicle, which carried the International Space Station's first resident crew, shown in the vertical position for launch at Baikonur. The Soyuz spacecraft design first flew in the 1960s and remains in service today, and TM-31 carried American commander Bill Shepherd alongside Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko to begin more than two decades of continuous human presence in orbit.