WIKIARCHIVES.SPACE

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, astronaut Steve Swanson (right) of NASA, Expedition 39 Flight Engineer and Expedition 40 commander, shares a moment with crewmate Oleg Artemyev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) after they inspected their Soyuz TMA-12 spacecraft March 21. Swanson, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of Roscosmos and Artemyev are wrapping up training for their launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time, for a six-month mission on the orbital laboratory.