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Expedition 34/35 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA (right) is assisted by his backup, Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg (left) as they raise the U.S. flag outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Dec. 9, 2012. The flag-raising ceremony was part of the pre-launch activities that will lead to the launch of Marshburn, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency Dec. 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov