Expedition 44/45 crew member Kjell Lindgren of NASA prepares to board a bus July 10 for his departure.
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crew member Kjell Lindgren of NASA prepares to board a bus July 10 for his departure with his crewmates to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Lindgren, Oleg Kononenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.