At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 37/38 backup crew members Flight Engineer Steve Swanson (left) of NASA, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov (center) of Russia's Federal Space Agency and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Russia clasp hands Sept. 3 during a round of qualification exams. The trio is serving as backups to the prime crew – Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov, Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy and Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA – who will launch to the International Space Station Sept. 26 in their Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll
Taken on 3 September 2013
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