Expedition 47 Soyuz Commander Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos, center, receives the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to his launch on the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), Friday, March 18, 2016, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Ovchinin, Flight Engineer Jeff Williams of NASA, left, and Flight Engineer Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos, right, will spend the next five and a half months living and working aboard the ISS.
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