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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 44/45 prime and backup crewmembers prepare to sign a ceremonial book in the Gagarin Museum July 8 as part of traditional prelaunch ceremonies. Seated from left to right are prime crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Standing behind them from left to right are the backup crewmembers, Timothy Kopra of NASA, Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos. Lindgren, Kononenko and Yui will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 23 for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.