
JSC2010-E-188227 (26 Nov. 2010) --- In front of St. Basil's Cathedral at Red Square in Moscow Nov. 26, 2010, Expedition 26 prime and backup crew members posed for pictures as part of ceremonial activities leading to the launch of the Expedition 26 crew in the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Dec. 16 (Kazakhstan time). Among those at the Kremlin were JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa (from the left), backup flight engineer and backup Soyuz commander Anatoly Ivanishin, NASA's Mike Fossum, backup flight engineer; NASA's Catherine (Cady) Coleman, Expedition 26 prime flight engineer, prime Soyuz commander Dmitry Kondratyev and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli, prime flight engineer. Photo credit: NASA/Stephanie Stoll