JSC2012-E-216646 (21 Sept. 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) report for their second day of final qualification exams Sept. 21, 2012. The exams will lead to their launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month stay on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA