At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 41/42 prime and backup crews pose for pictures Sept. 5 at the Gagarin Museum. From left to right are backup crewmembers Scott Kelly of NASA, Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, and prime crewmembers Elena Serova of Roscosmos, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos and Barry Wilmore of NASA. Wilmore, Samokutyaev and Serova 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. Kelly and Kornienko will launch in March 2015 to spend a full year on the complex.
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