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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crewmembers Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, left) and NASA’s Kjell Lindgren (center) walk with their families to awaiting busses July 10 following a departure ceremony prior to their flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Kononenko, Lindgren and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.