Cosmonauts Oleg Novitskiy and Evgeny Tarelkin

JSC2012-E-217766 (25 Sept. 2012) --- Expedition 33 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy plants a flower at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow where Russian space icons are interred Sept. 25, 2012 as he, Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (left) and NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford (hidden behind Tarelkin) participated in traditional ceremonies leading to their launch to the International Space Station scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission. Photo credit: NASA