Expedition 30 Preflight

Expedition 30 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko is seen after performing the traditional door signing Wednesday, Dec. 21, 2011 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kononenko was launched onboard the Soyuz rocket the same evening with Expedition 30 NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andre Kuipers on a mission to the International Space Station (ISS). Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)