At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City Russia signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony as his crewmates, NASA’s Barry Wilmore (left) and Elena Serova of Roscosmos (right) look on. The trio will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 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.

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