Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA is seen laying in a seat liner as he and fellow crew mates, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, have their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked a few hours ahead of their launch, Nov. 7, 2013, in Baikonur, Kaza
201311070047hq (7 Nov. 2013) — Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA is seen laying in a seat liner as he and fellow crew mates, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, have their Russian Sokol suits pressure checked a few hours ahead of their launch, Nov. 7, 2013, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Tyurin, Wakata and Mastracchio will launch in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission. Photo credit: NASA/GCTC/Irina Peshkova