Behind their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur Kazakhstan Expedition 35 36 pause from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

Behind their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 35-36 Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin (right) pause after a traditional tree-planting ceremony for Cassidy March 21, part of the ceremonial activities accompanying their training for launch to the International Space Station March 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. The three crewmembers will spend 5 ½ months on the orbital laboratory.

NASA/Victor Zelentsov