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At their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, the backup crewmembers for the Expedition 34/35 mission review flight plans with crew trainers Dec. 13, 2012. Backup NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg (left), backup Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and backup Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) are the backups for prime crewmembers Tom Marshburn of NASA, Roman Romanenko and Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, who will launch Dec. 19 on their soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov