Expedition 38/39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin center signs in for final qualification exam simulations look on.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 38/39 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin (left, center) signs in for final qualification exam simulations Oct. 17, 2013 as his crewmates, Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (far left) and NASA Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio (left, right) look on. The trio is scheduled to launch on Nov. 7, local time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on the Soyuz TMA-11M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

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