Fulfilling a long-standing pre-launch tradition, Expedition 33/34 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (right) stand by trees they planted in their names behind the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan October 17, 2012. The trio are preparing for launch October 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to spend five months on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov
Photographer Photographer: Victor Zelentsov
Date October 17, 2012