Expedition 33 Crew Members

JSC2012-E-220509 (10 Oct. 2012) --- At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the Expedition 33 crew pose for pictures Oct. 10, 2012 in front of their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft during the first of two "fit check" dress rehearsal sessions. NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin are in the final phase of their training for launch scheduled for Oct. 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Novitskiy is holding a toy hippopotamus that will serve as a "zero-g" indicator over his head while he is strapped into the center seat of the descent module section of the Soyuz during its nine minute climb from the launch pad to orbit. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov