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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center at Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA (left) signs in for the second day of qualification exams October 31. Looking on are Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti (right). The trio is preparing for launch in the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan Nov. 24, Kazakh time, for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station