Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Mike Fossum of NASA lays flowers at the Kremlin Wall at Red Square in Moscow May 16, 2011 as part of the traditional activities leading to the launch of him and his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov and Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency to the International Space Station June 8 in their Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Looking on are backup crewmembers Don Pettit of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Russia and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency.