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With St. Basil's Cathedral serving as a panoramic backdrop, the prime and backup crew members for Expedition 25 to the International Space Station pose for pictures at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow Sept. 17, 2010. From left to right are Expedition 25 backup flight engineer Oleg Kononenko, backup Soyuz commander Sergei Volkov, backup NASA flight engineer Ron Garan, prime Expedition 25 flight engineer Oleg Skripochka, Soyuz commander Alexander Kaleri and NASA flight engineer Scott Kelly. Kaleri, Kelly and Skripochka will launch Oct. 8 (Kazakhstan time) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month stay on the station.