Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman are greeted by Russian space officials May 15 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where the crew arrived by flight for final pre-launch training. Just behind the crew is former cosmonaut Valery Korzun, now the Deputy Head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Gerst, Suraev and Wiseman are scheduled to launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.
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Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (left), Soyuz Commander Maxim Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and NASA Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman are greeted by Russian space officials May 15 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan where the crew arrived by flight for final pre-launch training. Just behind the crew is former cosmonaut Valery Korzun, now the Deputy Head of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia. Gerst, Suraev and Wiseman are scheduled to launch May 29, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.