Expedition 43 Preflight

Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, points to his Expedition 43 crew mission patch after placing it on the the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) aircraft during his flight from Star City, Russia, to Baikonur, Kazakhstan, with fellow crew members, Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, center, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Saturday, March 14, 2015. The trio 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)