Expedition 43 Preflight

Expedition 43 backup crew members: Jeff Williams of NASA, left, Alexei Ovchinin and Sergei Volkov of of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), pose for a photograph with Expedition 43 prime crew members: NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, along with loved ones prior to departing the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, for Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, March 14, 2015. The Expedition 43 crew is preparing for launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)