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In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 44 crew member Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency undergoes a pressure and leak check of his Sokol launch and entry suit July 11 as part of a fit check dress rehearsal. Yui, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch July 23, Kazakh time from Baikonur in their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.