At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow, Expedition 30 NASA Flight Engineer Don Pettit lays flowers at the site where Russian space heroes are interred during a traditional ceremony Dec. 1, 2011. Pettit, Soyuz Commander Oleg Kononenko and Flight Engineer Andre Kuipers of the European Space Agency will launch on Dec. 21 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-03M spacecraft to the International Space Station. Credit: NASA
Date December 1, 2011