The Expedition 36/37 prime crew poses for pictures at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia.

With the statue of Vladimir Lenin serving as a backdrop, the Expedition 36/37 prime crew poses for pictures May 16 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. From left to right are Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. The activity marked the departure of the crew for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft and the start of a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
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