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With Moscow’s Kremlin Wall and St. Basil’s Cathedral providing a wintry backdrop, the Expedition 34/35 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 29, 2012 during ceremonial activities in which they laid flowers at the Wall where Russian space heroes are interred. From left to right are backup crewmembers Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, Russian Cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA and prime crewmembers Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko, Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency and Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA. Romanenko, Hadfield and Marshburn will launch to the International Space Station Dec. 19 in their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. NASA/Stephanie Stoll