Expedition 34 Preflight

Expedition 34/35 Canadian Space Agency astronaut and Expedition 35 Commander Chris Hadfield is escorted to the Soyuz rocket by Russian Space Agency Officials, prior to his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft with fellow crew members, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, and, NASA astronaut and Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn, Wednesday, Dec. 19, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Hadfield, Romanenko and Marshburn on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)