In Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the backup Expedition 32/33 crewmembers strike a pose July 7, 2012 in front of a statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, as they toured the town near the Cosmodrome from which the prime crewmembers --- NASA’s Sunita Williams, Yuri Malenchenko and Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency --- will launch July 15 to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. From left to right, the backup crewmembers pictured are Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn.
NASA/Victor Zelentsov