Expedition 33/34 backup crewmembers are all smiles as they pose for pictures in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mockup during final qualification exams.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 33/34 backup crewmembers Alexander Misurkin (left), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Chris Cassidy of NASA (right) are all smiles as they pose for pictures in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mockup September 20, 2012 during final qualification exams. They are serving as understudies for prime crewmembers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Kevin Ford of NASA who are scheduled to launch on October 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-06 spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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