Expedition 32/33 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia.

Expedition 32/33 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency answers questions from the media at a Soyuz vehicle mock-up before a final qualification test June 20, 2012 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Hoshide, along with Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams of NASA are scheduled to launch July 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll