Expedition 43 prime and backup crews enjoy lunch with Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Flight Surgeon Alexey Grishin at the Zvjozdnyj Hotel, Thursday, March 19, 2015 in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA Astronaut Scott 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/B

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