
17-12-26-50-2: (17 Sept. 2014) --- At the Cosmonaut Hotel crew quarters in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Expedition 41/42 Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, foreground) and Flight Engineer Elena Serova of Roscosmos (background) take turns on tilt tables Sept. 17 to test their vestibular systems. Samokutyaev, Serova and Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA are scheduled to launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome Sept. 26, Kazakh time, in the 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 live and work on the station. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov
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Victor Zelentsov
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