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Image: STS-131 and Expedition 23 Group Portrait

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Description: STS-131 and Expedition 23 crew members gather for a group portrait in the Kibo laboratory of the International Space Station while space shuttle Discovery remains docked with the station. STS-131 crew members pictured (light blue shirts) are NASA astronauts Alan Poindexter, commander; James P. Dutton Jr., pilot; Clayton Anderson, Rick Mastracchio, Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Stephanie Wilson and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Naoko Yamazaki, all mission specialists. Expedition 23 crew members pictured are Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kotov, commander; Mikhail Kornienko and Alexander Skvortsov; Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, and NASA astronauts T.J. Creamer and Tracy Caldwell Dyson, all flight engineers. Note: Commander Poindexter set up the shot on a D3s with 4 SB800 strobes.
Title: STS-131 and Expedition 23 Group Portrait
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-131/html/s131e010006.html
Author: NASA
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