Click to get to slide show – AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky

Photographers capture the liftoff of the Soyuz-FG rocket booster with the Soyuz TMA-11M spaceship carrying new crew members to the International Space Station from the Russian-leased Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan…

The rocket also carried the Olympic flame in preparation for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games.

I’ve been a photo bug since before most of y’all were born. I have a special feeling about photo journalists – growing up when B&W news photos were the most striking element of news coverage. AP is pretty good.