Expedition 26 Crew Members Meet With Roscosmos Officials

JSC2010-E-193642 (1 Dec. 2010) --- At the headquarters of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) in Moscow Dec. 1, 2010, Roscosmos Head Anatoly Perminov (left foreground) discusses the upcoming launch of the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft with Expedition 26 crew members Catherine (Cady) Coleman of NASA (left of those standing on the right of the picture), Paolo Nespoli of the European Space Agency (center of those standing on the right of the picture) and Russian cosmonaut Dmitry Kondratyev (right of those standing on the right of the picture). Coleman, Nespoli and Kondratyev will launch to the International Space Station on Dec. 16 (Kazakhstan time). The occasion was a traditional "tea" with Perminov prior to the crew's departure for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Dec. 3. Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll