NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of the Expedition 33/34 crew right exchanges stories, 2012.

NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of the Expedition 33/34 crew (right) exchanges stories with Expedition 32 crewmembers Joe Acaba of NASA (left), Sergei Revin (second from the left) and Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka (second from the right) at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia October 9, 2012. Ford, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, flew to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for their launch to the International Space Station on October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-6M spacecraft. Padalka, Revin and Acaba, who returned to Earth in their Soyuz spacecraft September 17 after four months in space, attended welcome home ceremonies at the Training Center following the departure of Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin for Baikonur.
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