In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA (top), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (center) and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (bottom) conduct a fit check dress rehearsal October 28 inside the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft. Mastracchio, Tyurin and Wakata will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz from Baikonur to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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