
(31 March 2011) --- At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 27 flight engineer, takes a moment from his final Soyuz training session March 31, 2011 as preparations continue for launch April 5 (Kazakhstan time) of Garan and Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev, Soyuz commander, and Andrey Borisenko, flight engineer, on the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft to the International Space Station. The Soyuz, which has been dubbed “Gagarin”, is launching one week shy of the 50th anniversary of the launch of Yuri Gagarin from the same launch pad in Baikonur to become the first human to fly in space. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Photographer: Victor Zelentsov
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