In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, astronaut Steve Swanson of NASA, Expedition 39 flight engineer and Expedition 40 commander, boards his Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft March 21 as he and his crewmates wrapped up training for their upcoming launch to the International Space Station. Swanson, Soyuz Commander Alexander Sk
JSC2014-E-027237 (21 March 2014) — In the Integration Facility at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, astronaut Steve Swanson of NASA, Expedition 39 flight engineer and Expedition 40 commander, boards his Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft March 21 as he and his crewmates wrapped up training for their upcoming launch to the International Space Station. Swanson, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos are scheduled to launch March 26, Kazakh time, for a six-month mission on the orbital laboratory Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov