Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA signs a welcome book at the Gagarin Museum Sept. 5 in a traditional ceremony. Wilmore, Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos (right) 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.

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