At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 prime crewmember Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (third from left) answers a reporter's question during a news conference Nov. 6 as her prime and backup crewmates look on. From left to right are prime crewmembers Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Cristoforetti, and backup crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Virts, Cristoforetti and Shkaplerov will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 prime crewmember Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (third from left) answers a reporter's question during a news conference Nov. 6 as her prime and backup crewmates look on. From left to right are prime crewmembers Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Cristoforetti, and backup crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Virts, Cristoforetti and Shkaplerov will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station