With family members and officials behind them, Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (center) and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos (right) walk to a waiting bus at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia Sept. 12 before flying to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training.
The trio will launch from Baikonur 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.
NASA/Stephanie Stoll