The Expedition 32 prime crew members pose in front of Vladimir Lenin's statue as part of their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on July 2, 2012, the Expedition 32 prime crew members pose in front of Vladimir Lenin’s statue as part of their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide, NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko. The trio are scheduled to launch to the space station on July 15 in their Soyuz TMA-54M spacecraft from Baikonur.

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