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KAZAKHASTAN - 200912210001HQ - Expedition 22 crew members, seated from left, NASA Flight Engineer Timothy J. Creamer of the United States, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov of Russia, and Flight Engineer Soichi Noguchi of Japan pose for a group photo with their backup crew members, standing from left, NASA’s Doug Wheelock, Russian Anton Shkaplerov, and Japan’s Satoshi Furakawa, just a few hours before the scheduled launch of the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Monday, Dec. 21, 2009. Photo Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls