At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 33/34 backup crew members Alexander Misurkin (left), Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov (center) and Chris Cassidy of NASA (right) are all smiles as they pose for pictures in front of a Soyuz spacecraft mock-up Sept. 20, 2012 during final qualification exams. They are serving as understudies for prime crew members Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Kevin Ford of NASA who are scheduled to launch on Oct. 23 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-06 spacecraft to the International Space Station.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll
Taken on 20 September 2012
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