Official farewell ceremony of the Expedition 24 crew

Expedition 26 crew members, (from left) Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli, Russian cosmonaut Dmitri Kondratiev, and U.S. astronaut Catherine Coleman pose for a photograph with Expedition 24 crew, (from left) U.S. astronaut Shannon Walker, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, and U.S. astronaut Doug Wheelock, during an official farewell ceremony before their departure to Baikonur, Kazakhstan from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City outside Moscow 3 June 2010. Wheelock, Walker and Yurchikhin are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) in a Soyuz TMA-19 spacecraft 16 June 2010.