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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 prime crewmember Kjell Lindgren of NASA signs a ceremonial book in the Gagarin Museum July 8 alongside his crewmates, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, seated center) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (seated right). Standing and looking on are backup crewmembers 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.