Stock Photo - Behind their Cosmonaut hotel crew quarters outside the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, NASA astronaut Mike Fossum (center), Expedition 28 flight engineer, conducts the traditional planting of a tree in his name June 1, 2011, assisted by his Soyuz commander, Sergei Volkov (right). Fossum, Volkov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, flight engineer, are set to launch June 8 (Baikonur time) on the Soyuz TMA-02M spacecraft to spend almost six months on the International Space Station. Also planting a tree is Fossum's backup, Don Pettit of NASA (left), assisted by backup Soyuz commander Oleg Kononenko (second from left).Victor Zelentsov