Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), right, shakes hands with Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, left, as he and crewmates Flight Engineer Elena Serova and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) prepare to depart for the launch pad on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Wilmore, Serova, and Samokutyaev on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zele

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Oleg Ostapenko, General Director of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), right, shakes hands with Expedition 41 Flight Engineer Barry Wilmore of NASA, left, as he and crewmates Flight Engineer Elena Serova and Soyuz Commander Alexander Samokutyaev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) prepare to depart for the launch pad on Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Launch of the Soyuz rocket will send Wilmore, Serova, and Samokutyaev on a five and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. Photo Credit: (NASA/Victor Zelentsov)

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