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Assisted by NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams, Expedition 32/33 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency plants a tree in his name behind the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan July 9, 2012 as part of the traditional ceremonies leading to their launch July 15 to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. Joining Williams and Hoshide are Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko, NASA backup Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn, backup Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and backup Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko. NASA/Victor Zelentsov