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Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams (right) arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 2, 2012 after a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia for final pre-launch preparations. The trio will be launched July 15 from Baikonur to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-05 spacecraft for a four-month mission.

NASA/Victor Zelentsov

Expedition 32 Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams (right) arrive at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 2, 2012 after a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia for final pre-launch preparations. The trio will be launched July 15 from Baikonur to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-05 spacecraft for a four-month mission. NASA/Victor Zelentsov