Expedition 42 Flight Engineer Terry Virts of NASA, left, takes a quick glimpse up at the Soyuz TMA-15M spacecraft before boarding to launch with fellow crewmates Soyuz Commander Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) Monday, Nov. 24, 2014 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Cristoforetti, Virts, and Shkaplerov will spend the next five and a half months aboard the International Space Station.

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