Expedition 33 Press Conference

Expedition 33/34 prime crew members from left; Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS, and backup crew members; Russian cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Vinogradov, and NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy pose for a group photograph after the end of a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel, on Monday, October 22, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for October 23 and will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)