
(2 May, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on May 2, 2012, Expedition 31/32 backup and prime crew members pose 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 backup crew members Kevin Ford of NASA and cosmonauts Evgeny Tarelkin and Oleg Novitskiy, and prime crew members NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, and Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, the last three wearing the orange Ribbon of St. George in honor of Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9. 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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