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At the Kremlin Wall in Moscow's Red Square, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA lays flowers May 8 at the spot where Yuri Gagarin, the first human to fly in space, is interred. Wiseman, Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency are preparing for launch May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.