
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 33/34 crew posed for pictures October 10, 2012 next to the upper stage of the Soyuz rocket that will boost them and their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to orbit October 23 to begin a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) took a break in the first of two so-called “fit check” dress rehearsal sessions as they entered the final phase of their training for launch. NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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October 10, 2012
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Photographer: Victor Zelentsov
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