Russian engineers and instructors monitor their consoles as overhead television screens show the Expedition 33/34 prime crewmembers conducting final qualification exams September 21, 2012 in a Soyuz vehicle mockup at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The crewmembers, Kevin Ford of NASA and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin, were in the final stages of training for their scheduled launch October 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.

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