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Behind their Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (foreground, left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov (center foreground) of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (right foreground), take a stroll down the Walk of Cosmonauts March 19. Behind Swanson is backup crew member Barry Wilmore of NASA and behind Artemyev is backup crew member Elena Serova. 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.