Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures in front of their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft in advance of their launch May 24, 2013 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Nyberg , Yurchikhin and Parmitano are preparing to begin a 5 month mission to the International Space Station.

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Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (right) pose for pictures in front of their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft in advance of their launch May 24, 2013 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Nyberg , Yurchikhin and Parmitano are preparing to begin a 5 month mission to the International Space Station.

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