Soyuz crew arrives at launch pad

A large crowd welcomes NASA's Don Pettit, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kononenko and Dutch astronaut Andre Kuipers at the Baikonur Cosmodrome launch pad before the heads up the tower to begin boarding the Soyuz TMA-03M capsule.

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Photo credit: RSC Energia