
Expedition 32/33 Flight Engineer Sunita Williams of NASA plants a tree in her name behind the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan July 9, 2012 as part of the traditional ceremonies leading up to her launch July 15 to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. Assisting Williams were, from left to right, Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko and backup crew members Tom Marshburn of NASA, Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko. NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Photographer: Victor Zelentsov
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