Standing next to a model of a Soyuz rocket, Expedition 36/37 backup crewmembers Mikhail Tyurin (left), Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (center) and Rick Mastracchio of NASA (right) take in a tour of the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan May 19. The trio is serving as backups for prime crewmembers Karen Nyberg of NASA, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, who are preparing for launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov