JSC2013-E-090719 (22 Oct. 2013) — At the Gagarin Museum located at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38/39 backup Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (front row, left) signs a commemorative book Oct. 22, 2013 as his crewmates, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev (front row, center) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman (front row, right) look on. Joining them in the back row from left to right are prime crew members Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin and NASA’s Rick Mastracchio, who will launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for the start of a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA