At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center walk to a bus before boarding a plane for the flight at the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 39/40 prime and backup crewmembers and family members walk to a bus March 13 before boarding a plane for the flight to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The prime crewmembers are NASA Flight Engineer Steve Swanson (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos; foreground center) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (second from the right). Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev will launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time , in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission.

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