At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 prime crew members Barry Wilmore of NASA (left), Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos (right) clasp hands during a photo opportunity Sept. 4 at the start of the second day of final qualification exams. They are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll
2014-09-04
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