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Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, report to senior officials ahead of their second day of qualification exams at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC), Wednesday, Mar.4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. Kelly, Padalka, and Kornienko are in preparation for their launch to the International Space Station onboard a Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Marr. 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.