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JSC2011-E-030086 (31 March 2011) --- At the Korolev Museum near the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Ron Garan, Expedition 27 flight engineer, signs a picture of a Soyuz rocket March 31, 2011 as part of traditional ceremonies leading to the launch of the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft April 5 (Kazakhstan time) that will carry him, along with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Samokutyaev, Soyuz commander; and Andrey Borisenko, flight engineer, 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 on April 12, 1961 to become the first human to fly in space. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov