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Toting his bags and with his family behind him, Expedition 44/45 Flight Engineer Kjell Lindgren of NASA departs his residence at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia July 10, bound for the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for the final two weeks of pre-launch training. Alongside Lindgren is astronaut Dan Burbank, the Director of Training Operations for NASA in Star City. Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) 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