Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 47-48 crewmember Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos waves to well-wishers as he boards a bus March 3 to take him and his crewmates to a nearby airfield for a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. Behind Ovchinin are NASA’s Jeff Williams (left) and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos (black wool cap, rear). The trio will launch March 19, Kazakh time, from Baikonur on the Soyuz TMA-20M spacecraft for a six-month mission on the International Space Station.

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