At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (far right on the left) Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (far right in the center) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (far right on the right) are greeted by local residents May 16 as they arrived at the launch site for final preparations for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov