Expedition 28 prelaunch views from Russia

Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa pays his respects to those interred in the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow May 16, 2011 as he and his crewmates conducted traditional activities in advance of their launch June 8 in the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station. Looking on is Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov, who along with Furukawa, will be launched with NASA Flight Engineer Mike Fossum to spend almost six months on the complex.

Expedition 28 Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa pays his respects to those interred in the Kremlin Wall in Red Square in Moscow May 16, 2011 as he and his crewmates conducted traditional activities in advance of their launch June 8 in the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the International Space Station. Looking on is Soyuz Commander Sergei Volkov, who along with Furukawa, will be launched with NASA Flight Engineer Mike Fossum to spend almost six months on the complex.