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4064a: In Red Square in Moscow, Expedition 42/43 crewmembers Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (foreground, left) and Terry Virts of NASA (foreground, right) walk by the famed St. Basil’s Cathedral Nov. 6 as they prepare to lay flowers at the Kremlin Wall where Russian space icons are interred. In the background are backup crewmembers Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kjell Lindgren of NASA. Cristoforetti, Virts and Anton Shkaplerov of Roscosmos will launch Nov. 24, Kazakh time from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on their Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Stephanie Stoll