JSC2011 E-030087 (31 March 2011 .

JSC2011-E-030087 (31 March 2011) --- The Expedition 27 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures March 31, 2011 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in front of the cottage near the launch pad in which Yuri Gagarin slept the night before he launched April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. NASA astronaut Ron Garan, flight engineer; Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Soyuz commander, and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko, flight engineer, will launch April 5 (Kazakhstan time) in their Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft to the International Space Station. Their Soyuz has been dubbed ?Gagarin? in honor of the 50th anniversary of Gagarin?s launch. From left to right are Borisenko, backup crew member Anatoly Ivanishin, Samokutyaev, backup crew member Dan Burbank, Garan and backup crew member Anton Shkaplerov. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov