At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 backup crewmember Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right) signs a ceremonial book Nov. 6 as his backup crewmate, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) looks on. The prime crew, Terry Virts of NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos 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 backup crewmember Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right) signs a ceremonial book Nov. 6 as his backup crewmate, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) looks on. The prime crew, Terry Virts of NASA, Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos 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