Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg are greeted by Russian space officials to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.

At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (left) Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) are greeted by Russian space officials May 16 as they arrived at the launch site for final preparations for their 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