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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (center) and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy (right) pose for pictures Sept. 20 near a wall mural of Russian space icon Sergei Korolev as they completed a final “fit check” dress rehearsal of procedures leading to their launch Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from Baikonur in the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft to begin a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. The words on the mural in Russian echo a famous line by Korolev, “the road to the stars is open”. NASA/Victor Zelentsov

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 37/38 Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (center) and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy (right) pose for pictures Sept. 20 near a wall mural of Russian space icon Sergei Korolev as they completed a final “fit check” dress rehearsal of procedures leading to their launch Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from Baikonur in the Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft to begin a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. The words on the mural in Russian echo a famous line by Korolev, “the road to the stars is open”. NASA/Victor Zelentsov