Expedition 35 Preflight

Expedition 35 NASA Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov is lifted out of his chair after having had his Russian Sokol suit pressure checked ahead of his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft to the International Space Station, Thursday, March 28, 2013, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Vinogradov, NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy and Russian Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin on a five and a half-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Carla Cioffi)