Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins signs in for a round of qualification exams.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA signs in for a round of qualification exams Sept. 4 as his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (left) and Sergey Ryazanskiy (right) look on. The trio is in final training for launch on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
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