At the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the upper stage of a Soyuz booster rocket is rotated back to its vertical position Dec. 8 following the encapsulation of the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft. The Soyuz spacecraft will launch Dec. 15 to send Expedition 46-47 crewmembers Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft in the integration facility (3)

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