Expedition 46-47 Prime and Backup Crew Members

At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, the Expedition 46-47 prime and backup crew members pose for pictures Nov. 23 at the Gagarin Museum. From left to right are backup crew members Takuya Onishi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, Kate Rubins of NASA and Anatoly Ivanishin of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and prime crew members Tim Peake of the European Space Agency, Yuri Malenchenko of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Tim Kopra of NASA, who will launch on Dec. 15 on the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a six-month mission on the International Space Station. NASA/Seth Marcantel