KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Last-minute preparations are being made to launch the first full-time crew of the International Space Station. The crew is scheduled to lift off Tuesday from the Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. And CNN space correspondent Miles O'Brien is there for the launch. He joins us live with the latest. Hi, Miles.</s>MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Kyra. The crew is here, and they are ready. We are told they are in good spirits. They are conducting some last-minute training. And also ready is the 163-foot Soyuz rocket. In the predawn hours of this morning, a misty morning it was, the Soyuz rocket was rolled out to the launch pad from its hangar. It's kind of an interesting procedure for those of us accustomed to seeing U.S. space shuttles that are carried out to the launch pad vertically. Here in Russia, they send them out horizontally on a railroad track, and within about an hour's time, it was erected on launch pad number one, the launch pad from which Yuri Gagarin left in 1961 to become the first human ever to travel into space. Now, this three-person crew of the International Space Station is led by a NASA astronaut, Bill Shepherd, a Navy captain and a Navy SEAL who is still on active duty. And he will lead a crew of two cosmonauts, Sergei Krikalov (ph) and Yuri Gedzenko (ph), on a four- month mission to the International Space Station, essentially a shakedown cruise, if you will. NASA is hoping that on October 30, October 30 will be the last day that humans are not in space. They see this as a long-term mission, and this $100 billion space station project is an ambitious partnership -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: All right, Miles, thank you very much.
International Space Station Crew Prepares to Lift Off