Expedition 40/41 visit to Red Square

With St. Basil’s Cathedral in the background at Moscow’s Red Square, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, centre) and Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA (right) pose for pictures after laying flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred.

The trio is preparing for launch on 28 May with the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.