Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri (bottom), Soyuz commander, along with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (center), and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, both Expedition 25 flight engineers, wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 7, 2010 (U.S. time and Oct. 8, Kazakhstan time). Kaleri, Kelly and Skripochka launched in their Soyuz TMA-01M rocket later that morning at 5:10 a.m. Kazakhstan time.
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Russian cosmonaut Alexander Kaleri (bottom), Soyuz commander, along with NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (center), and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka, both Expedition 25 flight engineers, wave farewell from the bottom of the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 7, 2010 (U.S. time and Oct. 8, Kazakhstan time). Kaleri, Kelly and Skripochka launched in their Soyuz TMA-01M rocket later that morning at 5:10 a.m. Kazakhstan time.