Expedition 43 Preflight

Expedition 43 backup crew members Jeff Williams of NASA, left, Sergei Volkov, center, and Alexey Ovchinin, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) depart the Cosmonaut Hotel after morning classes, Thursday, March 19, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their 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)