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(2 May, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on May 2, 2012, the prime crew members who will round out Expedition 31 on the International Space Station walk with their families to their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, all three wearing the Ribbon of St. George in honor of Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9. The trio are scheduled to launch to the space station on May 15 in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. NASA/Stephanie Stoll

(2 May, 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia on May 2, 2012, the prime crew members who will round out Expedition 31 on the International Space Station walk with their families to their farewell sendoff to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. From left to right are Soyuz Commander Gennady Padalka, Flight Engineer Sergei Revin, and NASA Flight Engineer Joe Acaba, all three wearing the Ribbon of St. George in honor of Russia’s Victory Day celebrations on May 9. The trio are scheduled to launch to the space station on May 15 in their Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft. NASA/Stephanie Stoll