Tim Kopra of NASA Waits to Board the Soyuz TMA-19M Spacecraft

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 crewmember Tim Kopra of NASA (left) waits to board the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft during a crew fit check Dec. 1. Kopra, Tim Peake of the European Space Agency and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 15 from Baikonur for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov