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(2 July, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on July 2, 2012, the prime crew members who will round out Expedition 32 on the International Space Station answer questions from reporters during their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams. The trio are scheduled to launch to the space station on July 15 in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft from Baikonur NASA/Stephanie Stoll.