Expedition 33 Crew Members

JSC2012-E-221500 (17 Oct. 2012) --- Fulfilling a long-standing prelaunch tradition, Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (right) stand by trees they planted in their names behind the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan Oct. 17, 2012. The trio are preparing for launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft to spend five months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov