Expedition 43 Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and, Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos are seen on monitors in a control room outside the Soyuz simulator as they and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly participate in their second day of qualification exams Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Soyuz training facility 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 cre

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