Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman listens to a reporter's question during a pre-launch news conference.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA listens to a reporter’s question May 8 during a pre-launch news conference. Near him is a toy giraffe belonging to his daughter that will fly as a “zero-G” mascot above the heads of the crew in the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft when Wiseman, Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency and Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) launch May 29, Kazakh time, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.

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