JSC2010-E-041314 (19 March 2010) --- At the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow March 19, 2010, NASA astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson, Expedition 23 flight engineer, lays flowers in a traditional ceremony prior to her departure for the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for her launch on the Soyuz TMA-18 spacecraft to the International Space Station April 2. Caldwell Dyson, Russian cosmonauts Alexander Skvortsov, Soyuz commander, and Mikhail Kornienko, Expedition 23 flight engineer, were certified for launch earlier in the day by the Russian State Commission. Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll
Photographer Stephanie Stoll
Date March 19, 2010