Tim Peake of the European Space Agency During Final Fit Check

In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 46-47 crew member Tim Peake of the European Space Agency flashes a smile before entering his Soyuz spacecraft Dec. 10 during a final fit check and inspection. Peake, Tim Kopra of NASA and Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) will launch Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov