Expedition 42 Crew Blessing

Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA, left, Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), center, and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA), right, receive the traditional blessing from a Russian Orthodox priest at the Cosmonaut Hotel prior to their launch on the Soyuz rocket to the International Space Station (ISS), Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Virts, Shkaplerov, and Cristoforetti will spend the next five and a half months living and working aboard the ISS. Photo Credit: (NASA/Aubrey Gemignani)