Oleg Kononenko took a tour of the ISS with a fisheye lens. Everything looks a lot bigger!

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Vladimir Kovalyonok on a spacewalk from the Salyut 6 station. (1978)

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Sergei Krikalev after putting on his Sokol spacesuit for the launch of Soyuz TMA-6. (2005)

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The crew of Soyuz 30: Pyotr Klimuk and Poland’s Mirosław Hermaszewski (1978)

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Vladimir Dzhanibekov (front) and Viktor Savinykh on their way to the pad for the launch of Soyuz T-13 (1985)

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There have been some new religious traditions added to launch preparations after the fall of the Soviet Union. The Soyuz is blessed after being rolled out to the launch pad and also the crew before being suited up for launch. These were performed by Father Sergei, the local Baikonur Russian Orthodox Priest.

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The Soyuz TMA-04M crew before getting on the elevator that takes them to their Soyuz.

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The crews of Soyuz TMA-04M were formally approved for flight by the State Commission in Baikonur. The State Commission is composed of various heads of the Russian space program. They also had a pre-flight press conference after.

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Soyuz TMA-04M was rolled out to the launch pad in Baikonur today. It launches on May 15 at 9am Baikonur time.

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The Soyuz TMA-04M spacecraft and its rocket have now been integrated together. It will rollout to the launchpad in the next few days.

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It was press day at Baikonur for the crews of Soyuz TMA-04M. The press gets let in and films them playing and training. The traditional tree planting was also filmed. Everyone that has launched from Baikonur has planted a tree ever since Yuri Gagarin’s flight.

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The backup crew of Soyuz TMA-04M visited а special gazebo in Baikonur a few days ago. It was here on 10 April 1961 that cosmonauts (Gagarin, Titov, Nelyubov, Nikolayev, Popovich and Bykovsky), Chief Designer Sergei Korolyov and high ranking officials held an important meeting to discuss Yuri Gagarin’s flight as the first man in space.

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Leonid Popov and Romania’s Dumitru Prunariu training for Soyuz 40, part of the Interkosmos program. (1981)

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The crew of Soyuz 25, Valery Ryumin and Vladimir Kovalyonok, during training. (1977)

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