From left to right, Expedition 12 Commander William S. McArthur, Jr., Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery I. Tokarev and U.S. Spaceflight Participant Gregory Olsen join backup Commander Jeffrey N. Williams, backup Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and backup Spaceflight Participant Sergei Kostenko at the traditional raising of the U.S., Russian and Kazakh flags at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Sept. 20, 2005 as the crew prepares for its launch on a Soyuz TMA-7 vehicle to the International Space Station on October 1.
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Baikonur
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NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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From left to right, Expedition 12 Commander William S. McArthur, Jr., Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery I. Tokarev and U.S. Spaceflight Participant Gregory Olsen join backup Commander Jeffrey N. Williams, backup Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and backup Spaceflight Participant Sergei Kostenko at the traditional raising of the U.S., Russian and Kazakh flags at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Sept. 20, 2005 as the crew prepares for its launch on a Soyuz TMA-7 vehicle to the International Space Station on October 1.