JSC2012-E-216497 (20 Sept. 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (right), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; signs in for the first of two days of final qualification exams Sept. 20, 2012. Ford, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (left) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (center) are preparing for their launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: NASA