Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA strikes a thoughtful pose in Star City Russia.

Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA strikes a thoughtful pose as he listens to questions from reporters September 21, 2012 during final qualification training exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Ford and his crewmates, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, are scheduled to launch in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft on October 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.Photo Credit: Stephanie Stoll/NASA