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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 39/40 prime and backup crew members and family members walk to a bus March 13 before boarding a plane for the flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The prime crew members are NASA Flight Engineer Steve Swanson (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos; foreground center) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (second from the right). Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission.