Crew Receives Traditional Blessing

201212190004hq (19 Dec. 2012) --- Expedition 34 crew members, Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency, right, receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the morning of their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Dec. 19, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Marshburn, Romanenko and Hadfield on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Carla Cioffi