Expedition 38 Flight Engineers Mikhail Tyurin, Koichi Wakata and Rick Mastracchio participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia outside Moscow Oct. 16. Afterward, they departed for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to complete training for their launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft Nov. 6 (Nov. 7 Baikonur time).
