The Expedition 30 backup crewmembers sample local food served in Baikonur Kazakhstan Dec. 11, 2011.

The Expedition 30 backup crewmembers sample local food served by a Kazakh host inside a model of a primitive Kazakh hut-type house during a tour of a museum near their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Dec. 11, 2011. Clad in traditional Kazakh garb are backup Flight Engineer Suni Williams of NASA (second from the left), backup Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and backup Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The prime crewmembers, NASA’s Don Pettit, Oleg Kononenko and Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency will launch to the International Space Station Dec. 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft.

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