Expedition 30 Preflight

Expedition 30 NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, second from left, and Russian cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko, second from right, are seen as they are escorted to the Soyuz launch pad just hours prior to their launch aboard the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft to the International Space Station at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Wednesday, Dec. 21 2011. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)