Expedition 36 Crew

Expedition 36/37 Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), top, Flight Engineers: Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency, center, and Karen Nyberg of NASA, bottom, wave farewell as they board the Soyuz rocket ahead of their launch to the International Space Station, Wednesday, 29 May, 2013, Baikonur, Kazakhstan.

The crew's Soyuz rocket is scheduled to launch, 29 May, Kazakh time.

Yurchikhin, Nyberg, and, Parmitano, will remain aboard the station until mid-November.