The three crewmembers who will round out the Expedition 30 crew on the International Space Station share a light moment with Russian technicians, 2011.

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the three crewmembers who will round out the Expedition 30 crew on the International Space Station share a light moment with Russian technicians as they inspect crew equipment hardware following a fit check in their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft Dec. 9, 2011. NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit (far left), Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency (standing to Pettit’s left) and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko (to Kuipers’ left) will launch Dec. 21 to the station from Baikonur.

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