Russian Trainers Monitor Expedition 34 Crew

JSC2012-E-238682 (28 Nov. 2012) --- At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, trainers eye a bank of monitors as the Expedition 34 crew conduct the second of two days of flight qualification exams Nov. 28, 2012 in a Soyuz spacecraft simulator. NASA Flight Engineer Tom Marshburn of NASA, Soyuz Commander Roman Romanenko and Flight Engineer Chris Hadfield of the Canadian Space Agency are preparing for their launch scheduled for Dec. 19 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in their Soyuz TMA-07M spacecraft, bound for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA