Crew dons spacesuits for Soyuz launch

NASA's Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers get dressed in their Sokol spacesuits before heading to the launch pad in the final hours of the countdown at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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Photo credit: RSC Energia

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