Expedition 43 NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly, left, and Russian Cosmonauts Mikhail Kornienko, center, and Gennady Padalka of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) walk with family and friends as they depart the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) in Star City, Russia, for Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Saturday, March 14, 2015. 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 in March 2016. (NASA/

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