Expedition 38/39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin poses in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin during a tour.

At the Gagarin Museum located at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38/39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin poses in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, and a picture of Gagarin with Russian space icon Sergei Korolev during a tour October 22, 2013. Tyurin, NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for the start of a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

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