Stock Photo - With the statue of Vladimir Lenin serving as a backdrop, Expedition 3637 Flight Engineer Karen Nyberg of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (center) and Flight Engineer Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency answer questions from reporters May 16 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. The activity marked the departure of the crew for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final preparations for their launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft. The three will participate in a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. In the background on the far right is former cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who conducted the first spacewalk in history in March 1965.