Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin signs a commemorative book at the Cosmonautics Museum May 8.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (front row, center) signs a commemorative book at the Cosmonautics Museum May 8 as his crewmates, Karen Nyberg of NASA (front row, left) and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (front row, right) look on. Their backups in the back row are Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin (center) and Rick Mastracchio of NASA (right). 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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