Head of the Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Yury Lonchakov talks with reporters as Expedition 43 crew members; NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos complete their second day of qualification exams at the GCTC, Wednesday, March 4, 2015 in Star City, Russia. Kelly, Padalka, and Kornienko are in preparation for their launch to the International Space Station onboard a Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 28

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