At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the next trio to launch to the International Space Station share a light moment during their traditional crew news conference Dec. 1, 2011. From left to right are Expedition 30 NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit, Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency and Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko. The crewmembers will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Dec. 21 on their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft. Credit: NASA
Date December 1, 2011