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Expedition 36-37 Crew Arrives in Baikonur

Expedition 36-37 Crew
JSC2013-E-033438 (16 May 2013) — At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (third from right among the blue flight suits) Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (second right in the blue flight suit) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (far right) are greeted by local resid

JSC2013-E-033438 (16 May 2013) — At the airport in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (third from right among the blue flight suits) Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (second right in the blue flight suit) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency (far right) are greeted by local residents May 16 as they arrived at the launch site for final preparations for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft. The three will lift off at that time to begin a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov