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(2 May, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on May 2, 2012, the prime crew members who will round out Expedition 31 on the International Space Station pose with their families in front of a statue of Vladimir Lenin as part of their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, -- all three wearing the orange Ribbon of St. George in honor of Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9. The three are scheduled to launch to the space station on May 15 in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. NASA/Stephanie Stoll