article_snippet: Kelly, together with Russians Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka, will launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan in the early hours of Saturday.
article_snippet: Kelly and Kornienko will travel there on Soyuz.
article_snippet: Kelly is pictured with Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka (center) and Mikhail Kornienko (right), who will travel with Kelly.
article_snippet: M spacecraft is seen on M spacecraft launch pad at the Baikonur Cosmodrome ahead of M spacecraft mission .
article_snippet: Getting ready: An Orthodox priest blesses the Soyuz rocket at the Baikonur Cosmodrome on Thursday .
article_snippet: The three will join Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of Nasa and An Orthodox priest crewmates, Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos and Samantha Cristoforetti of Esa.
article_snippet: A religious man, Mikhail Kornienko is taking into orbit a folding icon depicting the Madonna and Child.