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At the Kremlin in Moscow, the Expedition 42/43 prime and backup crewmembers pose for pictures Nov. 6 in front of the famed Tsar Bell. From left to right are prime crewmembers Terry Virts of NASA, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and backup crewmembers Kjell Lindgren of NASA, Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Virts, Shkaplerov and Cristoforetti will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station