the rocket is being driven to the launch pad a pretty routine occurrence in the space business preparations for the one thousand nine hundred ninety second soyuz launch. but for two muppets cake this mission is the first. object to get a half years of intensive training he is about to take a seat in the small capsule forty meters above the ground. these are his last moments on earth moments during which anticipation turns into intense concentration. he joins russian cosmonauts with ski and american peggy whitson as they set up for the international space station. he is the only newcomer on expedition fifty fifty one.