Nine crew members gather for a group portrait in the International Space Station's Kibo laboratory following a joint crew news conference. This is the first time since October 2009 that nine people have resided on the station without the presence of a space shuttle. Pictured clockwise (from bottom right) are European Space Agency astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg, both Expedition 37 flight engineers; Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Expedition 37 commander; Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Tyurin, Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, NASA astronaut Rick Mastracchio, Expedition 38 flight engineers; Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov, Expedition 38 commander; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Koichi Wakata and NASA astronaut Michael Hopkins, both Expedition 38 flight engineers. The Expedition 37 crew members will undock from the station in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft on Nov. 10, ending a five-and-a-half month stay.
NASA
2013-11-08
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