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In front of the Tsar Bell at the Kremlin in Moscow, Expedition 25 prime and backup crew members were joined by NASA officials and friends as they posed for pictures as part of ceremonial activities leading to the launch of the Expedition 25 crew in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 8 (Kazakhstan time). Among those at the Kremlin were NASA astronaut Ron Garan (fourth from left), backup flight engineer; Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov (fifth from left), Oleg Kononenko (sixth from left), backup flight engineer; Oleg Skripochka (fifth from the right), Expedition 25 prime flight engineer prime Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri (fourth from the right) and NASA astronaut Scott Kelly (third from the right), flight engineer.