Expedition 43 Preflight

Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, center, and Expedition 43 backup crew member NASA Astronaut Jeff Williams talk as Kelly’s girlfriend, Amiko Kauderer, looks on at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, Saturday, March 14, 2015. Kelly and fellow Expedition 43 crew members, Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) departed later in the morning for Baikonur, Kazakhstan. 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)