Scott Tingle flashes a thumbs up as he boards a Soyuz spacecraft simulator as part of the crew's final qualification exam activities.

AirshowAt the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 prime crewmember Scott Tingle of NASA flashes a thumbs up as he boards a Soyuz spacecraft simulator Nov. 29 as part of the crew’s final qualification exam activities. Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) is seen in the foreground. They will launch along with Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) 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.