Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, 4th from left, Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, and Mikhail Kornienko, right, of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) attend a Soyuz TMA-16M Trajectory and Flight Plan briefing, Thursday, March 19, 2015 at Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Kelly, Padalka, and Kornienko of 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. (

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