Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov kisses his wife NASA's Steve Swanson and Oleg Artemyev.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov (right) of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) kisses his wife March 13 as he prepares to board a bus for a nearby airport and a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final training along with his crewmates, NASA’s Steve Swanson and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos. The trio will launch to the International Space Station on March 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission.

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