Expedition 43 Preflight

The Expedition 43 Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), talks with friends and family as he waits for fellow crew mates, NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and, Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, ahead of their departure from the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia for Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, March 14, 2015. The trio is 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/Bill Ingalls)