Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA plants a flower at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow.

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA plants a flower at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow where Russian space icons are interred September 25, 2012 as he, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy participated in traditional ceremonies leading to their launch to the International Space Station October 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission. In the background, the backup crew, Pavel Vinogradov, Chris Cassidy of NASA and Alexander Misurkin also planted flowers at the Wall, where Russian space icons are interred.
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