Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly prepares to depart the Cosmonaut Hotel after having conducted a television interview, Thursday, March 19, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, and Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) are 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 will return to Earth on Soyuz TMA-18M in March 2016. (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

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