, USRP Sunday, October 12, 2008 Expedition 18 lift off Early this morning, Expedition 18 successfully lifted off from the ﻿Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft, carrying U.S. astronaut E. Michael Fincke, Russian cosmonaut Yury Lonchakov and spaceflight participant Richard Garriott towards the International Space Station , is scheduled