The trio to launch to the International Space Station prepare to lay flowers at the site Russian space heroes are interred.

At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, the next trio to launch to the International Space Station prepare to lay flowers at the site where Russian space heroes are interred during their traditional ceremony Dec. 1, 2011. From left to right are Expedition 30 NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency. The crewmembers will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21 on their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft.

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