Expedition 33/34 Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, NASA Flight Engineer Kevin Ford and Russian Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin participated in traditional ceremonies at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia outside Moscow Oct. 9. Afterward, they departed for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan to complete training for their launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-06M spacecraft Oct. 23. After arriving in Baikonur, they were scheduled to conduct a series of prelaunch activities over the next two weeks as they prepare for liftoff to the orbital outpost.
