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Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Jeff Williams of NASA

Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Jeff Williams of NASA
Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos and Jeff Williams of NASA

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 47-48 crewmember Alexey Ovchinin of Roscosmos (right) and NASA’s Jeff Williams (left) wave to well-wishers as they board a bus March 3 to take them and crewmate Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos to a nearby airfield for a flight to the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch preparations. 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.

NASA/Stephanie Stoll