Soyuz FG carrier vehicle with Soyuz TMA-21 manned spaceship at the Gagarin launch pad, Baikonur Cosmodrome. The launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" is scheduled for April 5.

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The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

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The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

03.04.2011#896219

The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

03.04.2011#896218

The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, and the backup crew, from right Anatoly Ivanishin of Roskosmos, Daniel Burbank of NASA and Andrey Shakaplerovof Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

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The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

03.04.2011#896215

The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew commander Alexander Samokutyayev, left, is demonstrating a talisman of the crew at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee with flight engineer Andrey Borisenko to his right.

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Andrey Borisenko of Roskosmos, Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship flight engineer, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

03.04.2011#896213

The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship commander Alexander Samokutyayev of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

03.04.2011#896212

Ronald Garan of NASA, a Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew member, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

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Marciel Santos Kayle, near right, who lives in French Guiana, the author of the patch for the Gagarin spaceship, at at a news conference of the Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime and backup crews. The boy won a contest run by the Federal Space Agency for two years and was awarded with a trip to Baikonur Cosmodrome.

03.04.2011#896210

Marciel Santos Kayle, near center, who lives in French Guiana, the author of the patch for the Gagarin spaceship, and the Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left in the background: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee. The boy won a contest run by the Federal Space Agency for two years and was awarded with a trip to Baikonur Cosmodrome.

03.04.2011#896209

The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: Ronald Garan of NASA, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev and flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, both of Roskosmos, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

03.04.2011#896207

The Soyuz TMA-21 spaceship prime crew, from left: flight engineer Andrey Borisenko, commander of the ship Alexander Samokutyayev, both of Roskosmos, and Ronald Garan of NASA, at a news conference after the sitting of the state committee authorized the launch of the spacecraft with its own name "Gagarin" scheduled for April 5.

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