U.S. astronaut Timothy J. Creamer lays flowers at the grave of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, at the Kremlin wall in Red Square in Moscow, December 3, 2009. The crew is due to take off from Baikonur cosmodrome to the International Space Station on December 21.

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U.S. astronaut Timothy J. Creamer lays flowers at the grave of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, at the Kremlin wall in Red Square in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009. The next crew is scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station on Dec. 21 from Baikonur cosmodrome.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi prays as he lays flowers at the grave of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, at the Kremlin wall in Red Square in Moscow, December 3, 2009.

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Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi lays flowers at the grave of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, at the Kremlin wall in Red Square in Moscow, Thursday, Dec. 3, 2009.

Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi prays as he lays flowers at the grave of the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin, at the Kremlin wall in Red Square in Moscow December 3, 2009.

Canadian billionaire Guy Laliberte stands in a space museum with a portrait of the Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on the wall at Baikonur Cosmodrome September 26, 2009.

Visitors look at the sculpture called "Le Gisant Youri Gagarine" representing Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by French artist Xavier Veilhan in front of the Versailles castle, west of Paris, September 9, 2009. The exhibition opens on September 13 and runs until December 13, 2009.

Visitors walk past the sculpture called "Le Gisant Youri Gagarine" representing Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by French artist Xavier Veilhan in front of the Versailles castle, west of Paris, September 9, 2009. The exhibition opens on September 13 and runs until December 13, 2009.

A child walks past the sculpture called "Le Gisant Youri Gagarine" representing Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by French artist Xavier Veilhan in front of the Versailles castle, west of Paris, September 9, 2009. The exhibition opens on September 13 and runs until December 13, 2009.

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Tourists look at a sculpture called "Le Gisant Youri Gagarine" representing Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by French artist Xavier Veilhan is set up in the Versailles castle, west of Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.

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Tourists look at a sculpture called "Le Gisant Youri Gagarine" representing Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by French artist Xavier Veilhan set up in the Versailles castle, west of Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.

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A sculpture called "Le Gisant Youri Gagarine" representing Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin by French artist Xavier Veilhan is set up in front of the Versailles castle, west of Paris, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev's wife Svetlana Medvedeva, center, and U.S. first lady Michelle Obama, left, accompanied by Yelena Gagarina, right, director of the Kremlin museums, daughter of first man in space Yuri Gagarin, tour Kremlin museums at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Mo...

From (L-R) Canadian astronaut Robert Thirsk, Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Frank De Winne of Belgium shows shirts with portrait of the first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin during a news conference at Baikonur Cosmodrome May 26, 2009.

A model airplane explodes as it fails to take off during a celebration marking the Day of the Cosmonauts in front of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg April 12, 2009.

People watch the launch of a small rocket with the North Korean flag during a celebration marking the Day of the Cosmonauts in front of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg April 12, 2009.

People watch the launch of a small rocket during a celebration marking the Day of the Cosmonauts in front of the Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg April 12, 2009. Russia celebrates the Day of the Cosmonauts on the anniversary of the first manned space flight by Yuri Gagarin.

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Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, right, toasts Russian cosmonauts Alexei Leonov, left, who made the first spacewalk in 1965, and Valentina Tereshkova, second left, the first woman to fly to space, during a ceremony at the Kremlin in Moscow, Friday, April 10, 2009.

U.S. entrepreneur Charles Simonyi stands in front of a portrait of Yuri Gagarin at Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 20, 2009. Simonyi, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka and U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt are scheduled to fly to the International Space Station on March 26, 2009.

U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams stands in front of the monument to Yuri Gagarin at Baikonur, March 15, 2009. Williams is part of the back-up crew for the Soyuz TMA-14 space mission scheduled for this year.

Backup crew of the Soyuz TMA-14 space mission (L-R) entrepreneur Esther Dyson of Switzerland, U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev pose for a picture in front of the monument to Yuri Gagarin at Baikonur, March 15, 2009.

U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams stands in front of the monument to Yuri Gagarin at Baikonur, March 15, 2009.

Backup crew (L-R) entrepreneur Esther Dyson of Switzerland, U.S. astronaut Jeffrey Williams and Russian cosmonaut Maxim Suraev pose for a picture in front of the monument to Yuri Gagarin at Baikonur, March 15, 2009.

U.S. entrepreneur Charles Simonyi lays flowers at the tombs of Yuri Gagarin, and Sergei Korolyov, the head Soviet rocket engineer and designer, at the Kremlin wall in Moscow, March 5, 2009. Simonyi is planned to be part of the next crew to make a trip to the International Space Station.

U.S. astronaut Michael Barratt signs a guest book as he visits Yuri Gagarin museum at Star City space centre outside Moscow, March 5, 2009. Barratt took part in the news conference after being tested on his readiness to make a trip to the International Space Station.