
Expedition 36/37 prime and backup crewmembers approach the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Red Square in Moscow May 8 to lay flowers in honor of Russian Victory Day May 9. From left to right are prime Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA, prime Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, prime Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and backup Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA. Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano are preparing for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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