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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 26 Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Dmitry Kondratyev (center) and Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (right) walk past their Soyuz booster December 4, 2010 during a fit check of their Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft. The trio will launch December 16 (Baikonur time) to the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov

At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 26 Flight Engineer Catherine Coleman of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Dmitry Kondratyev (center) and Flight Engineer Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (right) walk past their Soyuz booster December 4, 2010 during a fit check of their Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft. The trio will launch December 16 (Baikonur time) to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov