Expedition 28 Departs Star City

The prime and backup crew members for Expedition 28 to the International Space Station pose for pictures on the grounds of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, from left to right are NASA astronaut and backup flight engineer Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut and backup Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko, European Space Agency astronaut and backup flight engineer Andre Kuipers, NASA astronaut and prime crew flight engineer Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut and prime Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov,  Japan Aerospace astronaut and prime crew flight engineer Satoshi Furukawa. The crew later departed for Baikonur, Kazakhstan in preparation for their June launch onboard a Soyuz rocket.  Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

The prime and backup crew members for Expedition 28 to the International Space Station pose for pictures on the grounds of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, from left to right are NASA astronaut and backup flight engineer Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut and backup Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko, European Space Agency astronaut and backup flight engineer Andre Kuipers, NASA astronaut and prime crew flight engineer Mike Fossum, Russian cosmonaut and prime Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov, Japan Aerospace astronaut and prime crew flight engineer Satoshi Furukawa. The crew later departed for Baikonur, Kazakhstan in preparation for their June launch onboard a Soyuz rocket. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)