Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA lays a flower at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Red Square in Moscow May 8 in honor of Russian Victory Day May 9. Behind Nyberg from left to right are backup crewmember Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, prime Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, prime Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency and backup crewmember Rick Mastracchio of NASA. Nyberg, Yurchikhin and Parmitano are preparing for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
Date May 8, 2013