At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (suited left) and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) walk to a Soyuz simulator October 31 during the second day of qualification exams. Cristoforetti, Shkaplerov and NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts are 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
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NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (suited left) and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) walk to a Soyuz simulator October 31 during the second day of qualification exams. Cristoforetti, Shkaplerov and NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts are 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