Prepared mementoes are seen prepared for friends and family that will come to visit NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) ahead of his Soyuz launch with fellow Expedition 43 crew members Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. The trio is preparing for launch to the International Space Station in their Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time. As the one-year crew, Ke

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