201403250002hq (25 March 2014) — Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with crewmates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosm
201403250002hq (25 March 2014) — Expedition 39 Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA performs the traditional door signing at the Cosmonaut hotel prior to departing the hotel for launch in a Soyuz rocket with crewmates, Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos, on March 25, 2014, in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Swanson, Skvortsov and Artemyev will launch in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft on March26, Kazakh time, to the International Space Station to begin a six-month mission. Photo credit NASA/Joel Kowsky