
(2 May, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on May 2, 2012, veteran cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, the first human to conduct a spacewalk in 1965, poses for a photo with Expedition 31 crewmembers prior to their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, cosmonaut Leonov, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin. Acaba, Padalka and Revin are scheduled to launch to the space station on May 15 in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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