The Soyuz rocket and Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft are assembled next to launch site 31 on the Baikonur Cosmodrome, on Saturday, Oct. 20, 2012 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for October 23 and will send Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of ROSCOSMOS on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov) Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft in the assembling facility

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