Expedition 43 Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), screen left, Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, screen right, and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly are seen on a monitor outside the Soyuz simulator during their second day of qualification exams Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Soyuz training facility in Star City, Russia. The trio is preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71171454" class="extiw" title="d:Q71171454"><span title="American photographer">Bill Ingalls</span></a>
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2015-03-05
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