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At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA, left) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) are seen in a space station trainer as part of the crew’s qualification exam training activities Nov. 28. Kanai, Tingle and Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 17 on their Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station