A board showing the days activities for Expedition 43 Russian Cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), and NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly is seen outside the Soyuz simulator during the crew’s second day of qualification exams Thursday, March 5, 2015 at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center (GCTC) Soyuz training facility in Star City, Russia. The trio is 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 Kornie

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