Expedition 36/37 crew members

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Karen Nyberg (left), Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (centre) and ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano clasp hands, 30 April 2013, as they began final qualification training for their launch to the International Space Station.

The three crew members 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.