At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia prepares to lay flowers 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 (foreground) prepares to lay flowers at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first man to fly in space, during a ceremony October 22, 2013. Looking on in the background are backup crewmembers Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA (back left) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (back right). Wakata, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio 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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