
5143 OK: Aboard a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft, Expedition 42/43 Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA, center), affixes a decal of the ESA logo of her mission to the cabin wall next to the Soyuz crew decal Nov. 11 in a traditional activity en route to her launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Looking on are her crewmates, NASA’s Terry Virts (left) and Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, right). The trio are preparing for their launch on the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft from Baikonur on Nov. 24, Kazakh time, for a five and a half month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Ivanov
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