Expedition 46-47 Backup Crew Members Tour Baikonur, Kazakhstan

The Expedition 46-47 backup crew members took a break from their training Dec. 2 as they walked through the city of Baikonur, Kazakhstan in a tour of the city. From left to right are Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Kate Rubins of NASA. They are serving as backups to the prime crew members, Tim Kopra of NASA, Yuri Malenchenko of Roscosmos and Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, who will launch on Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Victor Zelentsov