With Expedition 25 Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri looking on, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, flight engineer, lays flowers at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow Sept. 17, 2010 in a traditional ceremony as he, and cosmonauts Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, flight engineer, prepare for their launch Oct. 8 (Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka will dock their Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a 5 ½ month stay on the complex.
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Star City Moscow
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NASA/Lisa Polansky
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With Expedition 25 Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri looking on, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly, flight engineer, lays flowers at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow Sept. 17, 2010 in a traditional ceremony as he, and cosmonauts Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka, flight engineer, prepare for their launch Oct. 8 (Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka will dock their Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a 5 ½ month stay on the complex.