JSC2012-E-220513 (10 Oct. 2012) --- Flanked by his Expedition 33 crewmates, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford tests a pair of high-powered binoculars at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 10, 2012 as he, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (left) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) enter the final phase of training for their launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to begin a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov