Expedition 38 Prelaunch. NASA public domain image colelction.

Expedition 38 Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA dons his Russian sokol suit a few hours ahead of his launch on a soyuz rocket with fellow crew mates, Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, and, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Tyurin, Wakata, and, Mastracchio will launch in their Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission. Photo Credit: (NASA/GCTC/Irina Peshkova)