Friday Live: "Major Tom" by Shiny Toy Guns

This is a fairly busy weekend in space travel, so I thought I'd go with that theme this morning.  Late last night the Russian Soyuz launched from Kazakhstan, and though it suffered some major communication issues after launch, is safely headed for the ISS for crew and cargo transfer.  It will dock late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, depending on your time zone.  Then on Monday the Shuttle Discovery is set to launch from the Kennedy launch facility at 6:21am for the beginning of STS-131 and the fourth to last shuttle mission ever.