Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly reviews training procedures while inside the Soyuz simulator as he and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) 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 crew, Kelly and Kornienko

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