Expedition 43 Flag Raising

Expedition 43 prime and backup crew members: Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, left, Gennady Padalka, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), NASA Astronauts Scott Kelly, and Jeff Williams, andRussian Cosmonauts, Alexei Ovchinin, and Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos participate in the traditional flag raising ceremony at the Cosmonaut Hotel, Monday, March 16, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Padalka, and Kornienko are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)