The crewmembers who will round out the Expedition 30 crew on the International Space Station pose for pictures in front of a section of their Soyuz booster rocket.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the crewmembers who will round out the Expedition 30 crew on the International Space Station pose for pictures in front of a section of their Soyuz booster rocket Dec. 9, 2011. NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko (center) and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency (right) will launch Dec. 21 from Baikonur on the Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft for the station.

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