Doesn't the Columbus space lab look cozy? Here it is in the clean room of the EADS Space Transportation complex in Bremen, Germany, getting ready to be blasted up to the International Space Station. And click through for a blazing shot of the Russian Soyuz-U rocket blasting off from the Baikonur cosmodrome yesterday, carrying supplies to the ISS.

Columbus photo by AP Photo/EADS. Soyuz photo by STR/AFP/Getty Images.