At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 46-47 crewmembers Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (left), Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Tim Kopra of NASA (right) answer reporters’ questions Nov. 30 in front of the statue of Vladimir Lenin before departing for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Malenchenko, Kopra and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency will launch Dec. 15 in their Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.
NASA / Seth Marcantel
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