At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 34/35 backup Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (left) has a chat with prime Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency (right) while on exercise equipment Dec. 13, 2012 as preparations continue for the launch of Hadfield, NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko Dec. 19 on the Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov