At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crewmember Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency prepares to board a bus July 10 for his departure with his crewmates to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Yui, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crewmember Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency prepares to board a bus July 10 for his departure with his crewmates to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Yui, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.