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Description: The Expedition 28 crew and the STS-135 Atlantis astronauts take a break from a busy day in space to pose for a portrait aboard the orbiting complex's Kibo laboratory of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. The STS-135 crew consists of NASA astronauts Chris Ferguson, Doug Hurley, Sandy Magnus and Rex Walheim; the Expedition 28 crewmembers are JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, NASA astronauts Ron Garan and Mike Fossum, and Russian cosmonauts Andrey Borisenko, Alexander Samokutyaev and Sergei Volkov. The photo is arranged thusly: left to right in the front row are Fossum, Ferguson, Borisenko and Garan; in the middle row are Magnus and Samokutyaev; and the back row consists of Hurley, Walheim, Volkov and Furukawa.
Title: STS-135 and Expedition 28 joint group portrait
Credit: http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-135/html/s135e008075.html
Author: NASA
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