Expedition 36 State Commission

Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency gets the attention of a colleague after the State Commission meeting at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, May 27, 2013, in Kazakhstan. Parmitano and his fellow crew members, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, were in quarantine and kept behind glass during the meeting in preparation for their launch on a Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday May 29, Kazakh time. Photo credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)