Expedition 23 preflight

JSC2010-E-041316 (19 March 2010) --- At the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow March 19, 2010, Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko (left), Expedition 23 flight engineer; Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov
(center), Soyuz commander, and NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 23 flight engineer, brave the elements after laying flowers in a traditional ceremony prior to their departure for the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for launch on the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the International Space Station April 2. Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll