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(2 July 2012) --- With the statue of Vladimir Lenin serving as a backdrop at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko carries his daughter July 2, 2012 prior to boarding a bus that would take him and his Expedition 32 crewmates -- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams - to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for their launch to the International Space Station on July 15 (Kazakhstan time) in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. 

NASA/Stephanie Stoll

(2 July 2012) --- With the statue of Vladimir Lenin serving as a backdrop at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, Expedition 32 Soyuz Commander Yuri Malenchenko carries his daughter July 2, 2012 prior to boarding a bus that would take him and his Expedition 32 crewmates -- Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Flight Engineer Aki Hoshide and NASA Flight Engineer Sunita Williams - to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for their launch to the International Space Station on July 15 (Kazakhstan time) in their Soyuz TMA-05M spacecraft. NASA/Stephanie Stoll