jsc2017e136098 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Agency (JAXA, left), Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Scott Tin

jsc2017e136098 - At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 54-55 crewmembers Norishige Kanai of the Japan Aerospace Agency (JAXA, left), Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos, center) and Scott Tingle of NASA (right) pose for pictures in front of a statue of Vladimir Lenin Dec. 4 prior to their departure for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. They are scheduled to launch Dec. 17 on the Soyuz MS-07 spacecraft for a five-month mission on the International Space Station...Andrey Shelepin/Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.