Expedition 36/37 crew members

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Centre (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, Expedition 36/37 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency clasp hands April 30 as they began final qualification training for their launch to the International Space Station. The three crew members will launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a 5 ½ month mission on the international outpost.