Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos; center) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (right) are pictured following their exit from the airplane in the background after arriving at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 13.
JSC2014-E-025975 (13 March 2014) — Expedition 39/40 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA (left), Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos; center) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos (right) are pictured following their exit from the airplane in the background after arriving at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan March 13. The trio left earlier from their training base in Star City, Russia. Swanson, Artemyev and Skvortsov are preparing for their launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov