Expedition 33 Crew Suitup

Expedition 33/34 crew members, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, left, Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, and NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, talk to family members through glass from the room where they just had their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)