Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency.

With St. Basil’s Cathedral in the background at Moscow’s Red Square, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA (right) pose for pictures May 8 after laying flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. The trio is preparing for launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.

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