Expedition 44/45 crew member Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right) greets cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov.
At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 44/45 crew member Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (right) greets cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) during a departure ceremony for Yui and his crewmates July 10 for final pre-flight training at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. Shkaplerov was part of the Expedition 42/43 crew that returned to Earth in June after 6 ½ months on the International Space Station. Yui, Kjell Lindgren of NASA and Oleg Kononenko of Roscosmos will launch on their Soyuz TMA-17M spacecraft July 23 from Baikonur for a five-month mission on the International Space Station.