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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, an instructor watches a television monitor showing the Expedition 42/43 crew running through their procedures in a Soyuz simulator during the second day of qualification exams October 31. NASA Flight Engineer Terry Virts, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and European Space Agency Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti 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