Expedition 43 Preflight

Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), left, and Commander of the cosmonaut corps Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Valery Korzun walk to meet with Expedition 43 crew members, Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly prior to their departure later in the morning from GCTC, Star City Russia to 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)