At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia signs a commemorative book.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 36/37 backup crewmember Rick Mastracchio of NASA (front row, right) signs a commemorative book at the Cosmonautics Museum May 8 as his backup crewmates, Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (front row, left) and Mikhail Tyurin (front row, center) look on. The prime crew, NASA’s Karen Nyberg (back row, left), Fyodor Yurchikhin (back row, center) and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (back row, right) watch from the back row. Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano are preparing for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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