Expedition 33 Prelaunch

Expedition 33/34 Russian Cosmonaut and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin is escorted to the Soyuz rocket by Roscosmos Director of Human Space Flight Program Department Alexei Krasnov, left, and General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency, ROSCOSMOS, Vladimir Popovkin, prior to his launch onboard a Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft with fellow crew members, NASA Astronaut and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, and, Russian Cosmonaut and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, Tuesday, October 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)