In the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency strikes a pose during an exercise session May 22 as he, Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA and Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin prepare for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov