Expedition 33 Prime and Backup Crew Members

JSC2012-E-220569 (11 Oct. 2012) --- The Expedition 33 prime and backup crew members participated in ceremonies outside their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Oct. 11, 2012 highlighted by the traditional raising of the flags of the United States, Russia and Kazakhstan. Pictured from left to right are an unidentified local Kazakh official, Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, prime Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, prime Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin, backup Soyuz Commander Pavel Vinogradov, backup Flight Engineer Alexander Misurkin and backup Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA. Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin are scheduled to launch Oct. 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov