
(2 May, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on May 2, 2012, Expedition 31 Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka kisses his granddaughter goodbye as his one of his daughters, left, looks on. Padalka, along with flight engineers Joe Acaba of NASA and cosmonaut Sergei Revin, flew to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for their launch to the International Space Station on May 15 in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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