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NASA Briefing With Next Space Station Crew

Expedition 19 Commander and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka smiles during a news briefing introducing him as part of the next crew of the International Space Station at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 22, 2009. Padalka, Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Michael Barratt and U.S. spaceflight participant Charles Simonyi will launch to the International Space Station aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft on March 25, 2009. Flight Engineer and NASA astronaut Timothy Kopra will join the crew later in the year aboard STS-127. (UPI Photo/Aaron M. Sprecher)

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