Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center jet, Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin affixes his Soyuz crew patch to the wall of the cabin May 16 as he, Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg (right) flew from Star City, Russia to Baikonur, Kazakhstan to their launch site. They are preparing for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov Soyuz TMA-09M crew aboard a Russian Federal Space Agency aircraft

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