Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin lays flowers at the Kremlin Wall at Red Square in Moscow May 8 in a traditional ceremony.

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin lays flowers at the Kremlin Wall at Red Square in Moscow May 8 in a traditional ceremony honoring the spot where Russian space icons are interred. Yurchikhin, Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency are preparing for 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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