
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA waves goodbye March 13 as he boarded a bus to go a nearby airfield for the flight to the launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Boarding ahead of Swanson on the right is Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos). Swanson, Skvortsov and Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos will launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time , in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission. NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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