Flying from their training base in Star City, Russia to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), left, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, center, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos pose for pictures March 13 next
JSC2014-E-025974 (13 March 2014) — Flying from their training base in Star City, Russia to their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, Expedition 39/40 Soyuz Commander Alexander Skvortsov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), left, Flight Engineer Steve Swanson of NASA, center, and Flight Engineer Oleg Artemyev of Roscosmos pose for pictures March 13 next to the wall of the plane bearing a newly applied sticker with their mission insignia. Swanson, Artemyev and Skvortsov are preparing for their launch to the International Space Station March 26, Kazakh time, in their Soyuz TMA-12M spacecraft for a six-month mission. Photo credit: NASA/Victor Zelentsov