Farewell to a Russian Orthodox priest before boarding a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome for final pre-launch training.

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 42/43 crewmember Terry Virts of NASA (right) says farewell to a Russian Orthodox priest Nov. 11 before boarding a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Virts, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from Baikonur in their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.

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