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At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan (from left to right), Expedition 25 backup crew members Ron Garan of NASA, and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Volkov and Oleg Kononenko; and the prime crew members Scott Kelly, Alexander Kaleri and Oleg Skripochka discuss their training with Russian space officials Oct. 3, 2010. The meeting followed a final inspection of the Soyuz TMA-01M spacecraft in which Kelly, Kaleri and Skripochka will launch on Oct. 8 (Kazakhstan time) en route to the International Space Station.