Kevin Ford, Joe Acaba, Sergei Revin and Gennady Padalka

JSC2012-E-220355 (9 Oct. 2012) --- NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of the Expedition 33 crew (right) exchanges stories with Expedition 32 crew members Joe Acaba of NASA (left), Sergei Revin (second from the left) and Expedition 32 Commander Gennady Padalka (second from the right) at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Oct. 9, 2012. Ford, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, flew to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for their launch to the International Space Station scheduled for Oct. 23 in their Soyuz TMA-6M spacecraft. Padalka, Revin and Acaba, who returned to Earth in their Soyuz spacecraft Sept. 17 after four months in space, attended welcome home ceremonies at the Training Center following the departure of Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin for Baikonur. Photo credit: NASA