The Expedition 33/34 prime and backup crewmembers participated in ceremonies outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur and Kazakhstan.

The Expedition 33/34 prime and backup crewmembers participated in ceremonies outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan October 11, 2012 highlighted by the traditional raising of the flags of the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan. Pictured from left to right are an unidentified local Kazakh official, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, prime Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, prime Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, backup Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov. backup Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and backup Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA. Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin are scheduled to launch October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
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