Expedition 34 Crew Departs Star City

JSC2012-E-241355 (6 Dec. 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Center in Star City, Russia, Ann Marshburn (center), the wife of Expedition 34 Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA and their daughter Grace, look on as the bus carrying Marshburn and his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency departed for the airport Dec. 6, 2012 to take them to their launch site in Baikonur, Kazakhstan for final training. To the left of Ann Marshburn is former Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first human to walk in space in 1965 and to her right is Michael Surber, NASA’s Director of Human Spaceflight Operations in Russia. Marshburn, Romanenko and Hadfield are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Dec. 19 on their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft to spend five months on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA