Stock Photo - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 3738 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (second from left) holds a toy cat mascot during a pre-launch news conference Sept. 6 as his crewmates, Flight Engineer Michael Hopkins of NASA (far left) and Flight Engineer Sergey Ryazanskiy (second from the right) look on. Also participating in the news conference was the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center, Sergei Krikalev (far right). The mascot will be mounted inside the crew's Soyuz TMA-10M spacecraft over Kotov's head as a zero-g indicator once the crew launches. Their launch to the International Space Station is set for Sept. 26, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

Stock Photo: At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 3738 Soyuz Commander Oleg Kotov (second from left) holds a toy cat mascot during a.

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