Expedition 36/37 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures during a tour of Red Square in Moscow.

With famed St. Basil’s Cathedral serving as a backdrop, Expedition 36/37 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures May 8 during a ceremonial tour of Red Square in Moscow. From left to right are backup crewmember Rick Mastracchio of NASA, prime Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, prime Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, prime Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and backup crewmember Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano are preparing for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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