ISS036-E-004763 (29 May 2013) — This image, photographed inside the Zvezda service module, is one of the first scenes showing interaction among the Expedition 36 crew members already onboard the International Space Station and the three freshly arrived crew members on May 29, 2013. Having made the trip from Baikonur, Kazakhstan aboard the Soyuz TMA-09M and greeted here by cosmonaut Alexander Misurkin (frame center) of Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), are, from the left, Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg of NASA, Fyodor Yurchikhin of Roscosmos and Luca Parmitano of the European Space Agency. Out of frame are Flight Engineer Chris Cassidy of NASA and Expedition 36 Commander Pavel Vinogradov of Roscosmos, who, along with Misurkin, have been aboard the orbital outpost since March 29.
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