Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and Russian Cosmonaut Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), talk after having donned their Russian sokol suits for the Soyuz TMA-16M spacecraft fit check with fellow crew member Mikhail Kornienko of Roscosmos, Sunday, March 15, 2015 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The trio 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 i

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