At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia backup Expedition 36/37 crewmember Rick Mastracchio signs in for qualification exams.
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, backup Expedition 36/37 crewmember Rick Mastracchio of NASA signs in for qualification exams May 6 as he, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (far left) and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin support the prime crewmembers preparing for launch to the International Space Station. The prime crew, NASA’s Karen Nyberg, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are set to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on May 29, Kazakh time, for a five-month mission.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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