The Soyuz TMA-04M crews left Star City for Baikonur today, in preparation for launch on May 15.

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A visitor takes a picture of the Mir space station model at the Space Center at the Gagarin State Scientific Research-and-Testing Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City. 

Mikhail Tyurin striking a pose before spacewalk training.

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Fashion and cosmonauts!?! This is from the December 1999 issue of Vogue Russia with model Natalia Semanova. Featuring the 1997 Air Force selection of cosmonauts: Dmitri Kondratyev, Yuri Lonchakov, Roman Romanenko, Aleksandr Skvortsov, Maksim Surayev, Konstantin Valkov and Sergei Volkov.

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Planting trees in Star City. I think that’s Gherman Titov shoveling at the front and Vladimir Komarov just behind him. I really hope that the man in the hat facing away from the camera, on the left is Sergei Korolyov, the thought of him planting trees tickles me. (1960’s)

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Anton Shkaplerov says goodbye to his family before departing for Baikonur, Kazakhstan. He launches aboard Soyuz TMA-22 on Nov 14.

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