Expedition 27 Preflight

JSC2011-E-025836 (11 March 2011) --- NASA astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 27 flight engineer, participates in a news conference held March 11, 2011 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Garan, Andrey Borisenko and Alexander Samokutyaev (out of frame) will launch in the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 30 (Kazakhstan time) for a 5 ? month stay on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll