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Expedition 19 crewmembers celebrate the end of formal crew training with a cake-cutting ceremony in the Jake Garn Simulation and Training Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center. Pictured from the left are astronaut Michael Barratt, flight engineer; cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, commander; astronaut Tim Kopra and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, both flight engineers. Wakata will fly to the station on STS-119 and will serve as a flight engineer for Expeditions 18 and 19. Padalka and Barratt are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in a Soyuz spacecraft in March 2009. Kopra is scheduled to join Expedition 19 as flight engineer after launching to the station with the STS-127 crew.