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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Scott Kelly; along with Russian cosmonauts Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka (seated, left to right), all Expedition 25 flight engineers, discuss the progress of their launch preparations Sept. 26, 2010. Looking on are their backups, Ron Garan, Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko (standing, left to right) as the prime crew prepared to check out the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft in which it will launch in Oct. 8 (Kazakhstan time) to the International Space Station.