At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 33/34 prime crewmembers Kevin Ford of NASA (left), Evgeny Tarelkin (center) and Oleg Novitskiy (right) clasp hands as they begin the first of two days of final qualification exams September 20, 2012. Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin are preparing for their launch October 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
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