Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins poses for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA (left) Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (center) and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy (right) poses for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin Sept. 13 following a departure ceremony at their training base for a flight to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Hopkins, Kotov and Ryazanskiy will launch from Baikonur Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

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