With St. Basil’s Cathedral providing a scenic backdrop, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) pose for pictures September 25, 2012 at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow as they participated in traditional ceremonies leading to their launch to the International Space Station October 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll