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Outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, The Expedition 32 prime and backup crew members raised the U.S., Russian, Japanese and Kazakh flags July 4, 2012 in a traditional ceremony that was part of the pre-launch activities leading up to the launch of the next crew to the International Space Station. NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch to the station July 15 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. NASA/Victor Zelentsov