The Prime and Backup Expedition 33 Crew Members

JSC2012-E-220356 (9 Oct. 2012) --- The prime and backup Expedition 33 crew members pose for pictures in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Oct. 9, 2012 before the prime crew 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-06M spacecraft. Pictured from left to right are backup Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin, backup Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov, backup NASA Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy, prime NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford, prime Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and prime Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin. Photo credit: NASA