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After arriving at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan July 10 for their final pre-launch training, the Expedition 44/45 crewmembers wave to well-wishers

Before traveling to their crew quarters at the Cosmonaut Hotel. Kjell Lindgren of NASA (left), Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (center) and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right) will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.