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Expedition 12 Commander William S. McArthur, Jr. (second right); Flight Engineer and Soyuz Commander Valery I. Tokarev (frame center), U.S. Spaceflight Participant Gregory Olsen (second left), salute the Head of the Russian State Commission before departing for the launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan. McArthur, Tokarev and Olsen are preparing for launch October 1 on their Soyuz TMA-7 spacecraft to the international space station.