Expedition 31 Soyuz TMA-04M Docking to ISS

View from the balcony of the Russian Mission Control Center shows live television of the Expedition 31 crew members gathered together on the International Space Station a few hours after the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft docked on Thursday, May 17, 2012, in Korolev, Russia. Pictured are Expedition 31 crew members NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, back left, Oleg Kononenko of Russia, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers, back right, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, front left, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, bottom right. Padalka, Revin and Acaba's arrival to the International Space Station comes two days after they launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo Credit (NASA/Bill Ingalls)