Expedition 33 Crew With Sputnik Model

JSC2012-E-224533 (18 Oct. 2012) --- Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) pose for pictures in front of a model of Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite, in the Korolev Museum at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Oct. 18, 2012. The trio completed a final “fit check” dress rehearsal, preparing for launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in their Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Cosmodrome for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov