Expedition 36/37 crew

With St. Basil's Cathedral serving as a backdrop, Expedition 36/37 NASA Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg (left), Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (centre) and ESA Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano pose for pictures during a traditional tour of Red Square in Moscow, Russia, 8 May 2013.

The crew are preparing for their launch, 29 May 2013, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a long-duration mission to the International Space Station.