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Clad in blue flight gear, Expedition 42/43 crewmembers Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (left), Terry Virts of NASA (center) and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right) walk toward a bus Nov. 11 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia that took them to a waiting plane for a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Virts, Shkaplerov and Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from Baikonur in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station