Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA (left), Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (center) and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin affix a sticker bearing their mission's insignia to the cabin's wall.
JSC2013-E-091184 (26 Oct. 2013) — Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA (left), Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (center) and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin affix a sticker bearing their mission’s insignia to the cabin’s wall Oct. 26 as they flew from their training base in Star City, Russia to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final prelaunch preparations. Mastracchio, Wakata and Tyurin are scheduled to launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft from Baikonur to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov