At Yuri Gagarin’s museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA signs a commemorative book September 25, 2012 as one of his crewmates, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right), and backup crewmembers Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and Chris Cassidy of NASA (left to right in the rear) look on. Ford, Tarelkin and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy are the homestretch of their training for launch October 23 to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft. The trio will spend five months on the orbital outpost.
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