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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 44/45 prime and backup crewmembers answer questions at a news conference held July 8. At the dais in the front of the room and flanked by interpreters from left to right are prime crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and backup crewmembers Timothy Peake of the European Space Agency, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Timothy Kopra of NASA. 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