Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford (right) arrive at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow September 25, 2012 to participate in the traditional planting of flowers where Russian space icons are interred. They are scheduled to launch October 23 to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft for a five-month mission. In the background are their backups, Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and Chris Cassidy of NASA.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll