At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (standing on the left side of the trio), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio pay tribute at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space dur
JSC2013-E-090726 (22 Oct. 2013) — At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (standing on the left side of the trio), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (center) and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio pay tribute at the statue of Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space during a ceremony Oct. 22, 2013. The three are scheduled to 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