With St. Basil's Cathedral walk through Red Square in Moscow September 25, 2012 to participate in traditional ceremonies.

With St. Basil’s Cathedral serving as a scenic backdrop, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford (right) walk through Red Square in Moscow September 25, 2012 to participate in traditional ceremonies and the laying of flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. The trio are scheduled to launch October 23 to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft for a five-month mission.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll