With assistance from crewmates Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy (left) and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (right), Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA (center) admires a tree planted in his name in traditional ceremonies behind the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Sept. 18. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy are set to launch Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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