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With famous St. Basil’s Cathedral as a fitting backdrop, the next trio of residents for the International Space Station paid a traditional visit to Red Square and the Kremlin in Moscow June 22, 2012 to lay flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. Expedition 32/33 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams (center) and Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (right) will travel to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 2 for final preparations for their launch to the station July 15 in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll