Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Russia's Federal Space Agency (center) and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA greet Russian space officials.
JSC2013-E-091185 (26 Oct. 2013) — In the left portion of this photo, Expedition 38/39 Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Russia’s Federal Space Agency (center) and Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA greet Russian space officials on the tarmac at Baikonur, Kazakhstan Oct. 26 after they arrived on a flight from their training base in Star City, Russia for final pre-launch preparations. Mastracchio, Wakata and Tyurin are scheduled to launch Nov. 7, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft from Baikonur to begin a six-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
