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Outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the Expedition 31/32 prime and backup crews posed for pictures May 4, 2012 following the traditional raising of Russian, U.S. and Kazakh flags as part of their ceremonial activities leading up to the launch of the Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft May 15 to the International Space Station. From left to right are prime Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba and backup crewmembers Oleg Novitskiy, Evgeny Tarelkin and Kevin Ford of NASA. Padalka, Revin and Acaba will launch to the station for a four-month mission on the orbital outpost. NASA/Victor Zelentsov