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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) check in for the first of two days of final qualifications exams Sept. 20, 2012 as they prepare for their launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: NASA

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford, Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander, signs in for the first of two days of final qualification exams Sept. 20, 2012 as he, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin prepare for their launch scheduled for Oct. 23 in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Photo credit: NASA

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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, NASA astronaut Kevin Ford (left), Expedition 33 flight engineer and Expedition 34 commander; Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy (center) and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin (right) pose for pictures in front of a Soyuz vehicle mock-up during the second day of final qualification exams Sept. 21, 2012.

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