Expedition 43 Flag Raising

Expedition 43 prime crew: from left, NASA Flight Engineer Scott Kelly, Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), along with their backup crew: Jeff Williams of NASA, Russian Cosmonauts Alexei Ovchinin, and Sergei Volkov of Roscosmos attend a 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)