Expedition 43 backup crew member Sergei Volkov of Russia's Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) explains the Russian sokol suit pressure check process to Soprano Singer Sarah Brightman, scheduled to fly to space later in 2015 as a spaceflight participant, while NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) have their Russian sokol suits pressure checked ahead of their launch onboard the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft to the International Space Station Friday, March 27, 2015 in Baikonor, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Padalka, and Kornienko launched to the ISS from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.
NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin
Taken on 27 March 2015
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