Expedition 42 Flight Engineers Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) wait while crewmate and Soyuz Commander, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), has his Sokol suit pressure checked on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014 at Building 254 in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of Nov. 24 and will carry Shkaplerov, Virts, and Cristoforetti into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
Expedition 42 Flight Engineers Terry Virts of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency (ESA) wait while crewmate and Soyuz Commander, Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), has his Sokol suit pressure checked on Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014 at Building 254 in the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket is scheduled for the early hours of Nov. 24 and will carry Shkaplerov, Virts, and Cristoforetti into orbit to begin their five and a half month mission on the International Space Station.
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