At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia pay tribute at the statue of Yuri Gagarin.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right, left), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (right, center) and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio (right, far right) pay tribute at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space during a ceremony October 22, 2013. The trio will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for the start of a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

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