At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, famed Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (right) toasted the Expedition 27 prime and backup crew members at a breakfast March 21, 2011 prior to their departure for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are prime crew members Ron Garan of NASA, flight engineer; Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Soyuz commander; and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko, flight engineer, along with backup crew members Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shklaperov of Russia and Daniel Burbank of NASA. Garan, Samokut
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, famed Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (right) toasted the Expedition 27 prime and backup crew members at a breakfast March 21, 2011 prior to their departure for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are prime crew members Ron Garan of NASA, flight engineer; Russian cosmonaut Alexander Samokutyaev, Soyuz commander; and Russian cosmonaut Andrey Borisenko, flight engineer, along with backup crew members Anatoly Ivanishin and Anton Shklaperov of Russia and Daniel Burbank of NASA. Garan, Samokutyaev and Borisenko are scheduled to launch April 5 (Kazakhstan time) on the Soyuz TMA-21 spacecraft to the International Space Station.
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