Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency.

Expedition 41/42 Flight Engineer Elena Serova of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) lays flowers at the Kremlin Wall in Moscow’s Red Square where Russian space icons are interred in a traditional ceremony Sept. 5. Serova, Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of Roscosmos and NASA Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-14M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. Serova will become the fourth Russian woman to fly in space and the first Russian woman to conduct a long duration mission on the station.

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