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Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with crew mates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, on March 25, 2014, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Artemyev, Skvortsov, and Swanson will launch in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft to the International Space Station on March 26, Kazakh time, to begin a six-month mission.