Expedition 33 Prime and Back Up Crews

JSC2012-E-217762 (25 Sept. 2012) --- At Yuri Gagarin's museum at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA signs a commemorative book Sept. 25, 2012 as one of his crewmates, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right), and backup crew members Alexander Misurkin, Pavel Vinogradov and Chris Cassidy of NASA (left to right in the rear) look on. Ford, Tarelkin and Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy are in the homestretch of their training for their launch scheduled for Oct. 23 to the International Space Station from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft. The trio will spend five months on the orbital outpost. Photo credit: NASA