Kevin Ford, Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin

201210220008hq (22 Oct. 2012) --- Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of Roscosmos, right, are seen during a press conference held at the Cosmonaut Hotel on Oct. 22, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for Oct. 23 and will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls