Prime crewmember Anton Shkaplerov signs in for the start of the crew's final qualification exam activities.

AirshowAt the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmember Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) signs in for the start of the crew’s final qualification exam activities Nov. 29 as crewmate Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) looks on. Shkaplerov, Kanai and Scott Tingle of NASA will launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...NASA/Elizabeth Weissinger.