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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (from left to right), Expedition 25 backup crewmembers Ron Garan of NASA, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and the prime crewmembers Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka discuss their training with Russian space officials October 3, 2010 following a final inspection of the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft that Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka will launch in October 8 en route to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (from left to right), Expedition 25 backup crewmembers Ron Garan of NASA, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko and the prime crewmembers Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka discuss their training with Russian space officials October 3, 2010 following a final inspection of the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft that Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka will launch in October 8 en route to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov