Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, greets Expedition 41 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA at the launch pad on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Samokutyaev, Serova, and Wilmore are scheduled to launch aboard their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft at 2:25 am Kazakhstan time to join Expedition 41 Commander Maxim Suraev of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA, and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency (ESA), aboard the International Space Station.
<bdi><a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q71582571" class="extiw" title="d:Q71582571"><span title="American photographer">Joel Kowsky</span></a>
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2014-09-25
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