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201210230002hq (23 Oct. 2012) --- Expedition 33 crew members, Flight Engineer Kevin Ford of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Oleg Novitskiy, and Flight Engineer Evgeny Tarelkin of Roscosmos, right, receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel on the morning of their Soyuz launch to the International Space Station on Oct. 23, 2012, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of a Soyuz rocket later in the afternoon (Kazakhstan time) will send Ford, Novitskiy and Tarelkin on a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls
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