With the statue of Vladimir Lenin nearby, the Expedition 42/43 crew poses for pictures Nov. 11 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before boarding a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. From left to right are Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from Baikonur in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station
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With the statue of Vladimir Lenin nearby, the Expedition 42/43 crew poses for pictures Nov. 11 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia before boarding a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. From left to right are Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, who will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from Baikonur in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station