The Expedition 33/34 crew arrives at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan October 9, 2012 after a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia for final training leading to their launch October 23 to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft. From top to bottom are NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy. The trio will spend five months on the orbital laboratory, returning to Earth in March 2013.
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