Expedition 43 Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), left, shows his One-Year and Expedition 43 mission patches to members of the press during media day, Saturday, March 21, 2015 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kornienko, NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, and Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch to the International Space Station in the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28, Kazakh time (March 27 Eastern time.) As the one-year crew, Kelly and Kornienko will return to

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